State v. Cosey

*603CRICHTON, J.,

additionally concurs and assigns reasons.

hi wholeheartedly agree with the majority’s decision to deny the defendant’s writ application in all respects. I write separately to address post-conviction counsel’s complaint of ineffective assistance of trial counsel during the penalty phase of this 1996 trial, and to specifically emphasize that the purpose of collateral review is not to second-guess trial counsel’s strategy with benefit of hindsight or provide a second penalty phase many years after the first.1 Notably, after two decades, post-conviction counsel claims that trial…