Legal Opinion
Goodspeed v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided October 2, 2003No. 06-01-00227-CRPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice CARTER.
This case presents the issue of whether trial counsel’s conduct was so deficient, and presented professional errors of such magnitude, that it caused prejudice to the defendant, and that, but for counsel’s ineffective assistance, there is a reasonable probability the result of the case would have been different. If so, the legal process has failed and we can have no confidence in the outcome of the trial.
A jury convicted Melvin Goodspeed of aggravated sexual assault and assessed punishment at ninety-nine years’ imprisonment. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. §…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
- Bone v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
- Morgan v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Goodspeed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
- Wappler v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2006
- Hines v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2004
- Pieringer v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2004
- Goodspeed v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2005
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