Court Opinion

ID: 9455369
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:20:26.178359+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:34.507273
License: Public Domain

RIVES, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring) :
The majority finds that Mancuso was not denied effective assistance of counsel, relying on the standard enunciated in Williams v. Beto, 5th Cir. 1965, 354 F.2d 698, 704. I think that a stricter standard should be required. See Daugherty v. Beto, 5th Cir. 1967, 388 F.2d 810, 814-18 (dissenting opinion). However, in this case, under any reasonable standard, I agree that Mancuso was *31not denied effective assistance of counsel. I concur in the result, and in the opinion except for its reliance on the Williams v. Beto standard.