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Lahood, Ex Parte Michael George

Citations

  • 401 S.W.3d 45
  • 2013 WL 3196884
  • 2013 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 938

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding defendant’s “multiple outbursts,” “continu[ing] to talk when he was not supposed to,” and refusal to “answer questions as he was directed” did not indicate incompetency
  • “Counsel has a duty in every case to make… a reasonable decision that an investigation is unnecessary.”
  • court considered court-ordered affidavit regarding counsel’s “pre-trial investigative efforts, strategic decisions, and confidential communications with Applicant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hervey, Price, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Cochran, Alcala, Keller, Meyers

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