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2023However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,” so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is “so likely,” is legally presumed. [Cronic,] 466 U.S. [at] 648 . . . , 104 S. Ct. [at] 2046–47. . . ; see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97, 122 S. Ct. 1843 , 1851 . . . (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel’s failure to test the prosecution’s case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S.

2023However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,” so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is “so likely,” is legally presumed. [Cronic,] 466 U.S. [at] 648 . . . , 104 S. Ct. [at] 2046–47. . . ; see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97, 122 S. Ct. 1843 , 1851 . . . (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel’s failure to test the prosecution’s case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S.

2023However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,” so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is “so likely,” is legally presumed. [Cronic,] 466 U.S. [at] 648 . . . , 104 S. Ct. [at] 2046–47. . . ; see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97, 122 S. Ct. 1843 , 1851 . . . (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel’s failure to test the prosecution’s case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S.

2023However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,” so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is “so likely,” is legally presumed. [Cronic,] 466 U.S. [at] 648 . . . , 104 S. Ct. [at] 2046–47. . . ; see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97, 122 S. Ct. 1843 , 1851 . . . (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel’s failure to test the prosecution’s case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S.

2023However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,” so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is “so likely,” is legally presumed. [Cronic,] 466 U.S. [at] 648 . . . , 104 S. Ct. [at] 2046–47. . . ; see also Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97, 122 S. Ct. 1843 , 1851 . . . (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel’s failure to test the prosecution’s case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S.

2016If an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel “entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing, then there has been a denial of Sixth Amendment rights that makes the adversary process itself presumptively unreliable” and then prejudice will be legally presumed because it is “so likely.” Cronic, 466 U.S. at 658–59; see Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 , 696–97 (2002) (noting that, under Cronic, defense counsel's failure to test the prosecution's case must be “complete” before prejudice is presumed); Strickland, 466 U.S. at 692 (noting that “constructive de

2011App. 2008) (recognizing that, “if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel ‘entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,’ so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is ‘so likely,’ is legally presumed.”). 19 Wright v. Van Patten, 552 U.S. 120, 124 (2008) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks, citation, and bracket omitted). 20 Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685, 696-97 (2002). 21 Ex parte McFarland, 163 S.W.3d 743, 752 (Tex. Crim.

2011Wright v. Van Patten , 552 U.S. 120, 124 (2008) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks, citation, and bracket omitted). 20.

2024App. 2008) (“If an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel entirely failed to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing, so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is so likely, is legally presumed.”) (citing United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984)).

2021“However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel ‘entirely failed to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,’ so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is ‘so likely,’ is legally presumed.” Id. (cleaned up) (quoting Cronic, 466 U.S. at 658–59, 104 S. Ct. at 2046–47).

2021“However, if an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel ‘entirely failed to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,’ so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is ‘so likely,’ is legally presumed.” Id. (cleaned up) (quoting Cronic, 466 U.S. at 658–59, 104 S. Ct. at 2046–47).

2015Relying on United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), appellant next argues that defense counsel’s representation amounted to “no defense at all” and we should presume prejudice in this case. “[I]f an appellant can demonstrate that defense counsel ‘entirely fail[ed] to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing,’ so that there was a constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, then prejudice, because it is ‘so likely,’ is legally presumed.” Cannon v. State, 252 S.W.3d 342, 349 (Tex. Crim.