Millard Robert Beasley v. United States

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge

(concurring).

I concur in Judge Celebrezze’s remand of this case for new trial. The phrase “farce and a mockery, shocking to the Court” is too subjective a standard to employ as the sole criterion for determining whether or not there has been a Sixth Amendment deprivation of counsel.

The District Judge has entered strong findings of fact concerning the incompetence and ineffectiveness of appellant’s trial counsel. These findings do not appear to me to be “clearly erroneous.”