Paul Hillard Posey, Sr. v. Texas
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to review an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal, extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to review an! ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim? Should the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment apply to all litigants in a habeas corpus proceeding so as to effectuate a meaningful review of the Sixth Amendment guarantee? : Does the habeas corpus review scheme rise to the level of a substantive Due Process violation if undertaken without the aid of an attorney? Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals has so far departed from the : : accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or so far sanctioned such a departure by it's review scheme as to call for the exercise of the Supreme Courts power of supervision? : i _