State v. Harrison

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal of a conviction consolidated with a petition for review of the summary disposition of a petition for post-conviction relief under Rule 32, Ariz.R. Crim.Proc., 17 A.R.S., on the basis of ineffective counsel. We are asked to find, as a matter of first impression, that when a legal defender has been adjudicated ineffective in a prior unrelated proceeding, a subsequent appointment of another legal defender for the same defendant is per se a conflict of interest. Because we cannot substantiate that such a situation is a conflict of interest or that the…