State v. Milano

COPELAND, Justice.

For the reasons stated below, we find no error in defendant’s trial.

In his first assignment of error, the defendant claims he was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

*494In a case dealing with a guilty plea entered on counsel’s advice, the United States Supreme Court has stated that the gauge of effective assistance of counsel is not “whether a court would retrospectively consider counsel’s advice to be right or wrong, but . . . whether that advice was within the range of competence…