Salt Lake City v. Grotepas

ON CERTIORARI TO THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS

RUSSON, Justice:

This court granted certiorari for the narrow purpose of reviewing the court of appeals’ determination that the ineffective assistance of counsel test enunciated in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2064, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), applies to a case involving an infraction. We reverse and remand.

FACTS

On March 23, 1993, Calvin Grotepas, a student at the Salt Lake Art Center School (the Art Center), met with the director of the Art Center and was informed that he would no longer be accepted as a student because he…