Court Opinion

ID: 9790831
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:00:10.137823+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:31.933052
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BAKES, Chief Justice,
dissenting:
The Court concludes that by requesting the appointment of counsel the defendant has impliedly asserted a right under I.C. § 19-852, even though the statute was never called to the court’s attention. While we have not previously delineated how specifically a litigant must raise a claim under a statute in order to preserve the issue on appeal, it seems to me that the rationale of our recent cases requires, as a minimum, that the party call the statute to the court’s attention. Cf. State v. Martin, 119 Idaho 577, 808 P.2d 1322 (1991); Sanchez v. Arave, 120 Idaho 321, 815 P.2d 1061 (1991). The purpose for that rule adopted in those two cases was to give the trial court “an opportunity to consider the issue.” I believe that purpose which this Court sought *284to achieve by the rule in State v. Martin and Sanchez v. Arave is substantially undercut by its decision today.