Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas

Whether the 183rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez’s writ of Habeas Corpus when Petitioner’s trial and appellate counsel were ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Whether the Petitioner’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process of law were violated in that evidence used in his trial was obtained in violation of his Miranda rights and counsel was ineffective in failing to object to that inadmissible evidence? Whether the trial counsel’s failure to properly file a judgment of acquittal and the appellate counsel’s failure to raise an acquittal on direct appeal to challenge or vacate the conviction constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?