Ex parte Garcia

Alcala, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion in which Johnson, J., joined.

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”

This text in the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution ensures to all criminal defendants the right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial. See U.S. Const, amends. VI, XIV. The Sixth Amendment “stands as a constant admonition that if the constitutional safeguards it provides be lost, justice will not ‘still be done.’” Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 343, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799…