GONZALES v. the STATE.

Although Gonzales argues that he was prejudiced by counsel's failure to elicit testimony from the mother that her daughter was untruthful, counsel testified at the hearing on Gonzales's motion for new trial that counsel chose not to do so because in the absence of testimony from the child herself as to her truthfulness, the mother's opinion on the subject would have been based on facts not in evidence. The trial court concluded that declining to extend cross-examination of the mother to the subject of the victim's untruthfulness was a reasonable legal strategy. Because we are not entitled to…