Court Opinion

ID: 9487002
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:05:43.386292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:02.820080
License: Public Domain

FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in Parts I and III of the majority opinion. However, I dissent from Part II because I do not think that Wells raised the incompetence of counsel issue, which he now seeks to raise, when he filed his petition for review in the Oregon Supreme Court. He was required so to do. See Or.R.App.P. 9.05(3)(b), (d) and (4). Indeed, he could not properly raise the issue there because he had not done so in the Oregon Circuit Court. Cf. State v. Castrejon, 317 Or. 202, 856 P.2d 616, 621-22 (1993). I recognize that if it decided to hear the petition, the Oregon Supreme Court could have considered issues which were properly raised in the Court of Appeals but not raised in the petition before it. See Or.R.App.P. 9.20(2). However, I do not consider that to be relevant. The court did not so decide; it denied review. In short, as the district court found, Wells proeedurally defaulted on the claim.