Zamora v. State

I regret that I must dissent in a case of this nature. I am fully committed to the proposition that every accused regardless of his financial condition should be accorded a full review of his conviction by this court. I am also committed to the proposition that an attorney should not secure the reversal of a conviction against his client by the very act of failing to properly look after his client’s interests.

None of the cases cited in the majority opinion are analagous to the case before us here, nor do they support the statement in the majority opinion that “the statute does not place it…