Court Opinion

ID: 9635682
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:59:30.359789+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:32.646833
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Chief Justice FLAHERTY,
dissenting.
Where one is charged with crime A and crime B and due to bifurcation crime B is brought to trial prior to alleged crime A, but crime A becomes a significant part of the record in the trial of crime B resulting in a conviction, then the defendant is acquitted by a jury of crime A, does fundamental fairness require a new trial, when reviewed in an ineffectiveness context where, counsel fails to brief and argue the point on appeal? On this record, at least, I would say it does. In the new trial the facts of crime A as they regard the defendant would not necessarily be precluded, but that a jury acquitted the defendant of crime A along with appropriate instructions delivered to.the jury would be made known to and subject to argument before the jury as it was in Dowling v. United States, 493 U.S. 342, 110 S.Ct. 668, 107 L.Ed.2d 708 (1990).