Court Opinion

ID: 9667312
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:42:06.024853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:36.976480
License: Public Domain

O’BRIEN, Judge
(concurring).
I am not disposed to argue with the propositions of law stated in the majority opinion. However, the issue raised in the post-conviction petition was incompetency of counsel who, in this instance, was privately retained. The majority opinion discusses the allusion in the trial judge’s findings to the law that actions or non-action of retained counsel are imputed to the defendant alone, and then discourses at length on the nonoccurrence of State action where retained counsel are involved.
My review of this record satisfies me that the only issue raised in the petition is the adequacy of counsel and I am simply not wedded to the proposition that representation by retained counsel can never fall below standards of competence which would not result in a constitutional abrogation.
Otherwise, I concur fully with the majority opinion.