Ex parte Tilley

CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION

Alcala, J.,

filed a concurring and dissenting opinion

in which Johnson, J., joined.

The over eight hundred people who have been sentenced to life without parole in this state and who will spend the remainder of their natural lives in prison have no reasonable means in state court for challenging the ineffectiveness of them appointed trial attorneys. None. This means that a shoddy lawyer can render ineffective assistance of counsel resulting in an indigent defendant having to spend the remainder of his natural life in prison, and there is no way for that defendant…