Ex Parte Zepeda

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an accomplice is a person who has been charged with the same offense with which the defendant has been charged
• witness indicted for lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter based on alleged participation in murder and who testified against defendant was accomplice as a matter of law
• counsel’s failure to request instruction on law of accomplice witness testimony constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel according to Strickland standard
• failure to request an accomplice-witness instruction requiring corroboration of the testimony of several accomplices as a matter of law
• counsel’s failure to request instruction on law of accomplice witness testimony constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel according to Strickland standard
• witness indicted for lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter based on alleged participation in murder and who testified against defendant was accomplice as a matter of law

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