Court Opinion

ID: 9712865
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:01:46.128225+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:14.933756
License: Public Domain

Krivosha, C.J.,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case. I do so on the basis that the evidence does not establish any showing of ineffective assistance of counsel. I do not agree, however, with the majority’s suggestion that a court may ever instruct counsel to withhold documents or information from a client. If the client does not have the benefit of all of the information available to counsel, then the relationship between attorney and client cannot be fulfilled. I believe that a rule which permits a trial court to instruct a lawyer to withhold information from his client imposes upon counsel a burden which a court should not be permitted to impose upon counsel. If the client should not see the information, and that may be the case, neither should his counsel. I would not wish this case to be read as standing for the proposition that a trial court may impose such a requirement upon counsel.