Opinion
151,488; CA A40811
Argued and submitted December 15, 1986.
Affirmed January 28, reconsideration denied March 13, petition for review denied April 21, 1987 ( 303 Or. 331).
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Marion County, Richard D. Barber, Judge.
Jay R. Jackson, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.
David L. Kramer, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General, and Scott McAlister, Assistant Attorney General, Salem.
Before Warden, Presiding Judge, and Van Hoomissen and Young, Judges.
PER CURIAM
Affirmed.
In this post-conviction case, petitioner asserts that his counsel at his criminal trial provided ineffective assistance. He admits that he could have raised that claim in a previous post-conviction case but alleges that he could not reasonably have raised it, because his counsel in the first post-conviction case also provided ineffective assistance. Petitioner is incorrect. Counsel's alleged derelictions are not relevant to whether the claims could reasonably have been raised at the time of the first petition for post-conviction relief. See ORS 138.550(3).
On appeal, the state also takes the position that petitioner should be able to raise incompetency of previous post-conviction counsel if the failure to raise claims in the earlier case was the result of inadequate representation by the original post-conviction counsel. The state is also incorrect. Its argument is simply an attempt to give the trial court jurisdiction over claims of ineffective post-conviction representation. The trial court correctly dismissed the petition, because the legislature has not granted it that jurisdiction. ORS 138.530(1); Hetrick v. Keeney, 77 Or. App. 506, 713 P.2d 688, rev den 300 Or. 722 (1986).
Affirmed.