Thе defendant, Robert Lee Jones, was charged by grand jury indictment on alternative counts of felony murder and second-degree murder in 1973. At the arraignment proceeding, the defendant was permitted to plead guilty to the second-degree murder charge in exchange for a dismissal *441 oi the felony murder charge and a separate causе for armed robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and filed a petition for post-conviction reliеf in December, 1975. The hearing on this petition was held in August, 1976, and the petition was denied.
The defendant was then granted permission to file a belated appeal, and he has now raised the issues of ineffective representation of counsel at the time of entering his guilty plea and his failure to meet his burden of proof at the post-conviсtion relief hearing.
The incident which was the basis of these charges was the shooting death of Kenneth Hegerfeld whiсh occurred during the robbery of a tavern in Ft. Wayne. At the time of the guilty plea proceedings, the defendant stated that he participated in the robbery with his sister and another man. He stated that while he was in the tavern, he saw the front door open and fired at a man who was leaving. He then ran outside and shot again at the fleeing man. Hegerfеld was killed by a shot in the back of the head. This account of the incident was corroborated by the investigating pоlice officer. There were around thirty witnesses to these events, including Hegerfeld’s wife who was in the tavern at the timе of the robbery. Police statements from these witnesses all indicated that defendant was the one who did the shoоting.
Defendant first contends that he was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel beсause his court-appointed counsel did not fully explain the consequences of the guilty plea, did not thoroughly interview him, and allowed his mother to help him make critical decisions. It has long been established that there is a рresumption that counsel is competent and that strong and convincing evidence is required to rebut the presumption.
McFarland v. State,
(1978) Ind.,
Incompetency of counsel revolves around the particular facts of each case аnd the actions or inactions of the attorney must have made the proceedings a mockery of justice before incompetence will be found. This Court will not speculate as to what may have been the most advantageous strategy in a particular case.
Cottingham v. State,
(1978) Ind.,
The record in the instant case shows that defendant’s attorney had several conferences with the defendant, his mother, his sister’s attorney, and the prosecutor’s office in connection with this case. The attorney was careful to include defendant’s mother in the conferences because defendant was only sixteen at the time of the robbery. This protection of defendant’s rights as a juvenile cannоt now be claimed as a denial of other constitutional rights. Defendant’s attorney also went over the statemеnts of all the witnesses present in the tavern at the time of the robbery and found that these statements were consistеnt in describing defendant as the one who did the shooting.
The attorney arranged for defendant to be examined by two psychiatrists and discussed their reports with the defendant and his mother. He discussed the guilty plea arrangements with both the defеndant and his mother and carefully pointed out that the state would accept a plea to second-dеgree murder but would insist on the full penalty of life imprisonment and not the alternative penalty of fifteen to twenty-five years. The record shows more than adequate investigation, consultation, and careful explanation of thе guilty plea arrangements by defendant’s attorney and does not support defendant’s claim of ineffective аssistance.
Defendant further urges this Court to change the existing “mockery of justice” standard for ineffective assistance of counsel. As we have pointed out in
Cottingham, supra,
we have already modified this standard in
Thomas v. State,
(1969)
“It is reversible error not to provide a defendant in a criminal prosecution with *442 adequate legal representation at each stage of the proceeding . . . .” 251 Ind. at 557,242 N.E.2d at 925 .
The “mockery of justice” standard, modified with the “adequate legal representation” of Thomas, supra, insures that defendants will receivе competent legal representation.
The defendant also alleges that his guilty plea was involuntary beсause of the ineffective representation of his counsel. This contention is not persuasive since we have already found that defendant had more than adequate representation. Furthermore, the record shows that the trial court conducted a very lengthy and careful discussion with defendant before he acceptеd the guilty plea. All requirements of Ind. Code § 35-4.1-1-3 to § 35-4.1-1-5 were carefully met by the court. There is nothing in the record to suppоrt defendant’s claim of an involuntary plea.
The defendant’s final contention of error is that his post-conviction relief petition should not have been denied for failure to carry his burden of proof. However, defendant did not cite any authority or present any argument on this issue and it is therefore waived. Ind.R.Ap.P. 8.3(A)(7);
Murphy v. State,
(1977) Ind.,
For all the foregoing reasons, there was no trial court error and the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.