HERNANDEZ v. STATE

No. 506-97.

988 S.W.2d 770 (1999)

Mickey Thomas HERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

April 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Morgan, Midland, Brian W. Wice, Houston, for appellant.

Jeffrey L. Van Horn, First Asst. Stat's Atty., Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

McCORMICK, P.J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which KELLER, HOLLAND, WOMACK and KEASLER, JJ., joined.

We granted discretionary review in this case to reexamine, as a matter of state and federal constitutional law, whether to apply the two-prong Strickland v. Washington1 standard or the Ex parte Duffy2 standard to ineffective assistance of counsel claims "alleging...

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