Walbey v. Quarterman

PER CURIAM: *

This appeal is the latest proceeding in a habeas case that has been before five courts a total of seven times. The trial courts that actually received evidence, the Texas habeas trial court (the “THTC”) and the federal magistrate judge, both recommended relief, only to be reversed by reviewing courts. For reasons that we explain below, we are persuaded that those reversals were error and that the findings of fact made in the federal proceedings entitle Petitioner Gaylon George Walbey, Jr. to relief for ineffective assistance of counsel (“IAC”), which relief must take the form of…