Haworth v. State

GOLDEN, Justice.

A jury found appellant Steven Haworth guilty of aggravated assault and battery1 *913for his use of a pocketknife during a fight with Rod Risk on May 23, 1990, outside a bar near Casper, Wyoming. Haworth had claimed he used the knife in self-defense.

On appeal, Haworth raises one issue:

Whether the prosecution’s deliberate and covert intrusion into appellant’s trial preparations, alerting the prosecution of appellant’s defense strategy, violated appellant’s fifth and sixth amendment rights to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel, respectively.

We affirm.

FACTS

The fight in…