Betty Lou Beets v. Wayne Scott, Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1995-09-22

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EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge: The issue that provoked en banc rehearing of this capital murder case is whether a habeas corpus petitioner was deprived of her Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because her attorney committed arguable ethical violations when he obtained a contract for media rights to her story and failed to withdraw and testify as a defense witness. More precisely, the court h…

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