Andrews v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
in which MEYERS, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, JJ.,
joined.
In this case, during closing arguments, the prosecutor made a misstatement of the law that was detrimental to the appellant. The appellant’s counsel failed to object to this misstatement of law. In a published case, the Court of Appeals overruled the appellant’s point of error because there was no evidence of trial counsel’s motive for failing to object to the prosecutor’s misstatement. Because we conclude that, under the unusual circumstances of this case, there could be no legitimate trial strategy in failing to…
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