Robertson v. State

OPINION

This is an ineffective-assistance of counsel case. We granted discretionary review to decide whether, as a matter of federal constitutional law, appellant’s trial lawyer performed deficiently for eliciting testimony from appellant at the guilt phase of his trial that appellant was already incarcerated on two convictions that were pending on appeal. 1

Appellant was charged in this case with aggravated assault. In exchange for appellant’s guilty plea to this charge, the State initially offered to recommend a ten-year sentence to be served concurrently with a fifteen-year sentence that…