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- Title: State V. Markovic
- Author : State of Wisconsin in Court of Appeals District I
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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¶1 Drazen Markovic appeals, pro se, from the order denying his post-conviction motion seeking to vacate his no contest pleas to five felonies. Markovic maintains that the trial court erred when it determined that there was no ineffective assistance of counsel by either his trial or post-conviction attorney. He claims the trial court erred: (1) because his post-conviction attorney should have raised a claim of trial attorney ineffectiveness due to his trial attorney's failure to inform Markovic of his rights under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations;*fn1 and (2) in determining no conflict of interest existed when his trial attorney represented him while also representing Serbian nationals in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) who were charged with war crimes against citizens of Croatia, Markovic's native country. Because, at the time of his pleas, the law was uncertain as to whether an individual had standing to assert a violation of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, Markovic's trial attorney was not ineffective for failing to inform him of his rights under the Vienna Convention, and because no conflict of interest existed between Markovic and his attorney, we affirm.