Opinion ID: 1745774
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Heading: Trial counsel was inexperienced, carried an unduly heavy caseload, and had severely limited resources to marshal in Cabello's defense.

Text: Cabello claims that defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance, since counsel was inexperienced, carried a heavy caseload, and enjoyed few resources. In Wiley, 517 So.2d at 1382, this Court held that inexperience does not as a matter of law make counsel ineffective. Indeed, as noted above, counsel is presumed competent. Johnson, 476 So.2d 1195, 1204 (Miss. 1985). Moreover, defense counsel's heavy caseload and limited resources are, absent specific instances of error, wholly insufficient in themselves to reverse Cabello's conviction and sentence. Error is denied.