Conrado Vela v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections

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• discussing the exhaustion requirement and stating that, to satisfy the fair presentation standard, it is not enough that the petitioner has merely been through the state courts
• “whether counsel rendered effective assistance [under the standards dictated by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments] is a mixed question of law and fact”; citing cases
• errors that indicated ignorance of basic Texas procedure constituted ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).