9 a.m. No. 10S00-1004-PD-185. Wilkes was previously convicted of three murders that he committed in Vanderburgh County. The Clark County jury did not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; the trial court sentenced Wilkes to death. The convictions and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal in Wilkes v. State, 917 N.E.2d 675 (Ind. 2009). In post-conviction proceedings, the trial court vacated the death sentence and imposed three sentences of life without parole, but denied the remainder of Wilkes’s post-conviction claims. In this appeal from the post-conviction judgment, Wilkes argues he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel and of an impartial jury.