Laing v. State

I agree with the court that an illegal sentence was imposed, and disagree that the abject failure of adequate representation effectively portrayed in factual analysis in this case meets the reasonableness tests of our precedent in Frias v. State, Wyo., 722 P.2d 135 (1986), and of the United States Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, reh. denied 467 U.S. 1267, 104 S.Ct. 3562, 82 L.Ed.2d 864 (1984).1

*1251For specificity and thoughtfulness on effectiveness of counsel, one could providently look to the logic of the most approved-of justice of our…