Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
HabeasCorpus
Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was not debatable, despite uncontroverted evidence that would make the attorney's credibility, or any deference to it, completely impossible
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific , deference goes directly to a trial court's factual finding that requires a credibility determination concerning an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer, does a court of appeals err by , finding the said deference not debatable when there is cold, hard and uncontroverted evidence that would make the attorney's credibilty, or any deference to it, not only unreasonable and debatable, . but completely impossible in this space and time continuum? ii