State v. Maready

Although I concur in the Court’s conclusion that defendant is entitled to a new trial in the cases in which he was convicted of second degree murder based on his trial counsel’s unconsented-to concession of guilt to involuntary manslaughter and in the remainder of the Court’s opinion, I am unable to fully join in the logic by which the Court reaches its decision with respect to the “concession of guilt” issue. As a result, I concur in part and concur in the result in part.

As the record clearly shows, defendant’s trial counsel conceded his client’s guilt of involuntary manslaughter, two counts…