Court Opinion

ID: 9488387
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:43:34.300611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:51.094114
License: Public Domain

PAUL KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge,
concurring in part.
I concur in the Court’s opinion, with the exception of Part III(C). The interrelationship between an ineffective assistance of counsel claim and state disciplinary rules has not been briefed and is not before us. That said, not every disciplinary violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 165, 106 S.Ct. 988, 993, 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986), and not every “ineffectiveness claim alleges counsel committed disciplinable professional misconduct,” Ct.Op. at 41. Advising counsel to consider the professional implications attendant to raising an ineffectiveness claim, Ct.Op. at 41-42, creates a conflict of interest which could chill proper advocacy. I see no need to reach this issue, and therefore do not join in Part III(C) of the Court’s opinion.