Court Opinion

ID: 9850615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:00:05.102157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:40.427962
License: Public Domain

Justice PLEICONES:
I concur. In my dissent in Franklin v. Catoe, 346 S.C. 563, 552 S.E.2d 718 (2001), I concluded that a capital defendant, denied his statutory right to address the jury at the close of the guilt phase of his trial, was not entitled to be retried on his non-capital charges. Id. at 579-580, 552 S.E.2d at 727. As the majority opinion persuasively demonstrates, I was wrong. I continue to believe, however, that a capital defendant “denied the opportunity to exercise a statutory right afforded him by our death penalty statutes12” is ipso facto entitled to a new *219proceeding, and therefore would not engage in a Strickland,13 prejudice analysis here.
I concur in the majority’s decision to affirm the post-conviction relief judge’s order granting respondent a new trial on the charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

. S.C.Code Ann. §§ 16-3-20 through — 28 (Supp.2001).

. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).