· 9/15/2004
Scheanette v. State
Citations
- 144 S.W.3d 503
- 2004 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1480
- 2004 WL 2108890
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a party neither has a right to hybrid representation nor a constitutional right to represent himself on direct appeal
- holding that a party neither has a right to hybrid representation nor a constitutional right to represent himself on direct appeal
- concluding that it must presume counsel acted pursuant to reasonable trial strategy because it could only speculate as to why counsel acted or failed to act
- presuming that a reasonable trial strategy supported defense counsel’s actions because the court could only speculate as to why counsel acted or failed to act
- stating that an ineffective assistance claim must A be firmly founded in the record @
- presuming that defense counsel 13 acted pursuant to reasonable trial strategy because court could only speculate as to why counsel acted or failed to act
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Judges: Meyers, Keller, Price, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, Cochran, Womack
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