Ex Parte Simpson

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice MOSELEY.

In 2002, Phillip Wayne Simpson pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault and was placed on deferred community supervision pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement. In 2007, Simpson filed an application for writ of habeas corpus 1 in which he challenged the voluntariness of that guilty plea. Simpson contends that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the time of the 2002 guilty plea because his trial counsel did not assert the defense that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to render a decision in the case because the case’s transfer from juvenile…