Ex Parte Broadway

OPINION

in which KELLER, P.J., KEASLER, HERVEY, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

Applicant, Terrence Ladon Broadway, pled guilty to the charges of delivery of a controlled substance and retaliation. He chose to enter an open plea after declining the State’s plea-bargain offer. The judge assessed punishment at 25 years’ imprisonment. In his applications for writs of ha-beas corpus, Applicant alleged ineffective assistance of counsel on two grounds: (1) that his counsel failed to inform him of his right to appeal his sentence and (2) that his counsel allowed him to sign a waiver of appeal…