Erick Virgil Hall v. State

HORTON, Justice.

This is a permissive appeal arising from two interlocutory orders entered by the district court in Erik Virgil Hall’s case seeking post-conviction relief from his death sentence for the murder of Cheryl Hanlon, in which Hall alleges ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Hall has been convicted and sentenced to death twice. First, for kidnapping, murdering, and raping Lynn Henneman (Hall I) and, second, for the rape and murder of Cheryl Hanlon (Hall II). At the time Hall’s petition for post-conviction relief was pending in Hall I, his trial…