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· 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

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

  • 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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