Court Opinion

ID: 9530775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:03:25.263934+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:14.648608
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ZIMMERMAN, Justice:
(Concurring in the Result),
I concur in the dismissal of the writ of certiorari. However, I cannot join in footnote one’s statement of the standard for determining whether a subsequent writ for extraordinary relief may be entertained by the trial court. As stated in Fernandez v. Cook, 783 P.2d 547 (Utah 1989), a petitioner may raise issues of ineffective assistance of counsel in a habeas corpus petition only upon a showing of “unusual circumstances.” Id. at 549-50; see also Dunn v. Cook, 791 P.2d 873, 879 (Utah 1990) (Zimmerman, J., concurring in the result). In the present case, we are not in a position to determine whether the requisite “unusual *182circumstances” exist, as Justice Howe notes.
HALL, C.J., concurs in the concurring opinion of ZIMMERMAN, J.