The justices voted unanimously to apply the same competency standards it established in 2000 for court-appointed defense lawyers to include attorneys privately hired by defendants and those in public defender offices throughout the state.
“By adopting minimum standards that apply to all attorneys who represent defendants in trial- and appellate-level capital proceedings, we hope to further improve our capital punishment system by ensuring adequate representation in these all-important ‘first-level’ proceedings, thereby decreasing the number of claims of ineffective assistance in post-conviction proceedings,” wrote Justice Harry Lee Anstead, who authored the opinion released last month.
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