Court Opinion

ID: 9559236
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:24:50.367136+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:09.790146
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ROSE, Justice,
concurring in dissent of McCLINTOCK, J.
I fully concur with the learned dissent of my brother McClintock, except I would go further to hold the defendant to have been denied his constitutional rights of fair trial under the due process guarantee of the Federal and State Constitutions.
In my judgment, no lawyer can adequately prepare his client’s defense in the time allotted to the defense attorney here in a way which would assure a defendant effective assistance of counsel. The right to such representation is guaranteed and this defendant did not have it.
Therefore, in addition to holding that the continuance should have been granted for all the reasons set out in Justice Mc-Clintock’s dissent, I would have further held, under the authorities cited in the dissenting opinion, that the defendant was denied a fair trial, resulting in a violation of his constitutional rights of due process of law.