Court Opinion

ID: 9791980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:21:30.756495+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:39.949420
License: Public Domain

JOHNSON, Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the opinion of the Court and write only to express my special concurrence in part V of the opinion. There the opinion appears to equate the standard for effective assistance of counsel under the United States Constitution and the Idaho Constitution. I point out that in State v. Charboneau, 116 Idaho 129, 137, 774 P.2d 299, 307 (1989) we said:
From [State v.] Aragon [, 114 Idaho 758, 761, 760 P.2d 1174, 1177 (1988)] we are bound to conclude that it remains the burden of one claiming ineffective assistance of counsel under the Idaho Constitution to prove that “counsel’s conduct contributed to the conviction.”
In my view, applying this standard would not change the result in this case.