Court Opinion

ID: 9628341
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:17:18.897731+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:04.339169
License: Public Domain

GORDON, Justice
(specially concurring):
I do not believe that defense counsel’s performance should be measured against a mere “sham and farce” standard. As I stated in State v. Williams, 122 Ariz. 146, 155, 593 P.2d 896, 905 (1979), the Sixth Amendment requires that “[cjounsel must afford defendant reasonably effective representation, within the range of professional conduct customarily expected of an attorney in a criminal case.” The record in this case, however, does not support appellant’s contention that his trial counsel’s representation was less than reasonably effective. Therefore, I concur in the result.