The state Supreme Court wants to hear more about a Pleasants County murder case. Justices voted 5-0 Thursday to consider the full appeal from Richard Alan Poore.

A Pleasants County jury found Poore guilty last year of the 1981 death of his four-month-old son, Richard Alan Poore, Junior, who was shaken to death. Poore was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole.

Poore's new attorney William Summers told Supreme Court members Wednesday his client had ineffective counsel.  "From the preliminary hearing stage and all of the way to the end the lawyer representing Mr. Poore did a horrible job representing him," Summers said. "There were no objections to things, there were experts that were not attained. There were statements that weren't gathered."

Poore was charged with the crime in 2006, more than 25 years after the fact, when an unfinished autopsy report on his death was found at the state Medical Examiner's Office in Morgantown.

Summers told the Supreme Court there are many reasons his client should be given a new trial. He says Pleasants County Tim Sweeney was allowed to label his client a monster without Poore's attorney refuting it.

"There was no opening statement given by his counsel. There was nothing to refute anything said by the prosecutor," Summers said.

The Supreme Court will likely hear full arguments early next year.