Jimenez, Ex Parte Rosa Estela Olvera

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• stating that we review trial counsel’s efficacy in light of totality of representation from viewpoint of time of trial; we may not review trial counsel’s conduct through “20/20 hindsight”
• reasonableness of trial court’s decision on motion to appoint expert under Ake depends on information before trial court when it rules on motion
• “The failure to object to proper questions and admissible testimony . . . is not ineffective assistance.”
• “The mere fact that another attorney might have pursued a different tactic at trial does not suffice to prove a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• four experts’ testimony contesting State’s theory that defendant committed the conduct causing death
• “The Strickland test is judged by the ‘totality of the representation,’ not by counsel’s isolated acts or omissions, and the test is applied from the viewpoint of an attorney at the time he acted, not through 20/20 hindsight.”

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