So. In Texas, they believe that sleeping lawyers are fully effective counsel. In North Carolina, it's drunk lawyers.
You wonder sometimes: exactly how impaired or incompetent does a lawyer need to be before a court will decide that the defense is not effective? The Court of Appeals has ruled that sleeping lawyers don't meet the requirements, no matter what Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals thinks; why do drunken lawyers survive the test?
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