Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

Number of appeals of a conviction

Actually, there are still some avenues of appeal left.

He can always try a Writ of Habeas Corpus in the US District Court on various constitutional grounds, including ineffective assistance of counsel, or he can do the same thing to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin. Likelihood of success is slim in the best of cases, but the ability is still there,

On the information given, there is a probability that ineffective assistance will not succeed, it is very hard to establieh. But there may be other issues available. Have your husband contact Inmate Legal Services, which does all of these types of appeals.

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Criminal appeal of conviction

Gerald is, of course, correct. I used to be with the Staff Counsel for Inmates in Huntsville, many years ago. Your husband may or may not have the ability to file a petition to the United States Supreme Court, if certain issues were raised in the Court of Criminal Appeals. Otherwise, the route is generally an 11.07 writ and if that fails, federal writs.The Staff Counsel for Inmates has several lawyers who concentrate on issues such as ineffective assistance of counsel resulting in the conviction of people sentenced to prison. You should know that if your husband does file a grevience, it may make him feel better, but it would also waive the attorney client protection against the lawyer's disclosing confidences. If your husband told the lawyer anything which would be adverse to his case, it might just be better to keep that under the relationship rather than waiving the relationship. It is, of course, his call.