Court Opinion

ID: 9598217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:06:38.653605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:50.814080
License: Public Domain

STRUBHAR, Presiding Judge:
concurs in part/dissents in part.
¶ 1 I concur in affirming the Judgment but dissent in the affirming of the Sentence.
¶ 2 I find merit in Propositions three and six and would reverse and remand to the trial court for a new sentencing hearing.
¶ 3 In Proposition three the Appellant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective and this ineffectiveness severely prejudiced Appellant’s defense. I agree.
¶ 4 The trial judge, as alleged in Proposition six, refused to answer the jury’s question concerning the meaning of life imprisonment without parole. I continue to believe that this Court should mandate an appropriate answer to that jury question.