Buckhannon v. State

I concur with Parts I and III of the majority’s unpublished memorandum. As to Part II, I concur only in the result because I believe this Court’s holding that Herbert Lee Buckhannon, Jr,, was represented by counsel at all critical stages of the proceedings conflicts with this Court’s opinion in Shaw v. State, 148 So.3d 745, 758-59 (Ala.Crim.App.2013), in which we recognized that when an attorney withdraws from representing a defendant but later appears at a proceeding purporting to represent the defendant, the defendant is effectively without counsel at that proceeding. Nonetheless, after…