Court Opinion

ID: 9549817
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:25:16.660953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:57.072607
License: Public Domain

CHAPEL, Presiding Judge,
concurring in results:
I agree that tMs Application should be denied. However, I disagree with the analysis used to resolve the ineffectiveness of trial counsel’s claim of error. The majority misconstrues 22 O.S.Supp. 1995, § 1089, to require appellate counsel to raise ineffectiveness claims against him or herself if he or she was also trial counsel. I find this interpretation absurd. Requiring appellate counsel to evaluate his own conduct of the trial is completely unreasonable. Indeed, it would be impossible. Accordingly, I would find that such claims “were not and could not have been raised in a direct appeal .” and should, therefore, be reviewed. 22 O.S.Supp. 1995, § 1089(C)(1). The rationale of our prior opinions in Roberts v. State, 910 P.2d 1071 (Okl.Cr.1996), Fowler v. State, 896 P.2d 566 (Okl.Cr.1995), and Webb v. State, 835 P.2d 115 (Okl.Cr.1992) is perfectly valid and the statute does not overrule these eases.