Court Opinion

ID: 9844216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 02:59:03.302895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:29.869663
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Justice
(concurring specially):
I concur in the majority opinion except that I would reserve for a subsequent post-conviction hearing the issue of competency of counsel raised and disposed of by the majority. The question of competency of counsel is an extremely complex factual determination which, in all but the most unusual cases, requires an evidentiary hearing for determination. See State v. Tucker, 97 Idaho 4, 539 P.2d 556 (1975). The resolution of those factual issues for the first time upon appeal, based upon a trial record in which competency of counsel was not at issue, is at best conjectural.