Woods v. State

I concur in the result only because we did state in Moore v. State, 273 Ark. 231, 617 S.W.2d 855 (1981) that the accused had the opportunity to raise ineffective assistance of counsel at the time of sentencing. This rule is entirely too strict and for numerous reasons should be modified. It takes no imagination to realize that most defendants are not learned in the law and would not know at the time of sentencing whether, for example, evidence had been seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment protection. In most instances the allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel are not known…