felonies. During that time, he also handled five murder cases, two resulted in acquittals and two pleaded out. Mr. Barnett-also served as city attorney for Guntersville from March 1981 through October of 1992. Based on the foregoing, the court notes that, at the time of this trial in 1990, Mr. Barnett had been licensed to practice law for over 23 years. During this time, he had engaged exclusively in the practice of law for some 17 years, including the eleven years immediately preceding Slaton’s trial. Mr. Barnett had extensive trial experience and, according to the personal knowledge of the court, this attorney enjoyed an excellent reputation in the community and among his peers as one of the foremost attorneys'in this area. See Chandler v. United States, 218 F.3d at 1313-1319 (<HOLDING>). “Evans and Barnett first met with Slaton
holding that a review of an employees 1989 performance was irrelevant to a determination of whether his performance was satisfactory at the time of his termination in august of 1990 holding that prior positive performance evaluations are not dispositive as to whether the employer was satisfied with the employees performance by the time of the termination recognizing presumption holding that whem courts are examining the performance of an experienced trial counsel the presumption that his conduct was reasonable is even stronger holding that failure to object to properly admitted evidence was not deficient performance by trial counsel