Murphy v. State

OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

The appellant pleaded no contest to five counts of robbery and two counts of aggravated robbery within two indictments and, after a pre-sentence investigation and a contested punishment hearing, was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for forty years on each aggravated robbery count and twenty years on each robbery count.

We must reverse the judgments of conviction on all counts because the pleas of no contest were involuntary in that they were entered as a result of ineffective legal assistance rendered to the appellant by his retained trial counsel.

In an unpublished…