Court Opinion

ID: 9703534
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:59:47.700994+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:49.996208
License: Public Domain

LARSEN, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
I join Mr. Justice Nix’s concurring and dissenting opinion and thus, would affirm the judgment of sentence.
The Majority’s position on ineffective assistance of counsel allows the defense to make a mockery out of justice. Defense counsel can remain silent as to a correct, but non-relevant, portion of a judge’s charge and can then argue to the jury using said charge as basis for support for acquittal. Upon being found guilty, the defendant will now be guaranteed a new trial because of defense counsel’s ineffectiveness in failing to object to the charge. Justice is not done by allowing this type of strategy to exist.