Court Opinion

ID: 9649641
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:04:20.736302+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:24:44.204017
License: Public Domain

ZAPPALA, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result. I write separately to disassociate myself from the discussion by the author of the Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court of the particular standard for appellate counsel ineffectiveness set forth on pages 12 through 15, as I believe that represents the position of that author, rather than the position of a majority of this Court.1 As I set forth my understanding of our Court’s jurisprudence in this regard in my concurring opinion in Commonwealth v. Williams, 566 Pa. 553, 782 A.2d 517 (2001), I need not repeat it here.

. I am cognizant of the assertion made by the author of the Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court that this opinion "reflects a refusal to accept stare decisis." Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court at 13 n. 11. Such a contention does not merit a response.