Court Opinion

ID: 9854029
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:59:32.597376+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:53.120203
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SEARS, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
In Divisions 2, 5, and 10 of the majority opinion, the majority holds that trial counsel waived certain issues and that those same *684issues also lack merit. Because the Court is remanding the case to the trial court for a hearing on Mangrum’s claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, I do not believe the majority should resolve the merits of the issues that trial counsel waived, as the trial court should have the initial opportunity to resolve those issues if Mangrum contends, on remand, that trial counsel provided deficient performance by failing to preserve the issues. For this reason, I concur specially in Divisions 2, 5, and 10 of the majority opinion.
Decided June 15, 2009 —
Reconsideration denied June 30, 2009.
Burns, Speights & Grisham, J. Daran Burns, Scott E Archer, for appellant.
Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Wallace W. Rogers, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Thurhert E. Baker, Attorney General, Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Justice Hunstein joins in this special concurrence.