Ex Parte Bahena

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• evidence showed that applicant committed charged offenses both before and after change in statute
• counsel was not ineffective for failing to act 19 But see notes 17 & 18, ante. SALINAS – 27 on the basis of “law that was unsettled at the time and is unsettled to this day”
• attorney not liable for error in judgment on unsettled proposition of law
• “It is necessary to decide only that it would not have been unreasonable for applicant’s trial and appellate counsel to have believed that applicant’s sentences could have been stacked based on law that was unsettled at the time and is unsettled to this day.”

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