{"id":35019,"date":"2018-10-04T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35019"},"modified":"2018-10-04T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:51:50","slug":"tx-no-iac-for-def-counsel-not-forecasting-change-in-4a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35019","title":{"rendered":"TX: No IAC for def counsel not forecasting change in 4A law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense counsel was not ineffective for not forecasting McNeeley before defendant\u2019s guilty plea. \u201cWhen a defendant waives the right to have a jury determine guilt or innocence and admits or does not contest guilt, the defendant does so under the law existing at the time of the plea. The fact that Briggs&#8217;s attorney did not anticipate subsequent changes in [Fourth Amendment] law does not impugn the truth or reliability of Briggs&#8217;s plea. We reverse the decision of the court of appeals and affirm the judgment of the trial court.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=09e56fd6-73b0-409f-b5ff-5ee915d912d9&#038;coa=coscca&#038;DT=OPINION&#038;MediaID=6a5b8c19-bd16-4a44-832a-2b77a4ff2cd8\">Briggs v. State<\/a>, 2018 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 924 (Oct. 3, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense counsel was not ineffective for not forecasting McNeeley before defendant\u2019s guilty plea. \u201cWhen a defendant waives the right to have a jury determine guilt or innocence and admits or does not contest guilt, the defendant does so under the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35020,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019\/revisions\/35020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}