(Texas) - the three-judge panel ruled that a sleeping lawyer could provide effective counsel as long as he did not doze during important parts of the trial. That opinion overturned a lower federal court ruling ordering a new trial or freedom for Mr. Burdine.
Today's ruling reinstated the lower court ruling and sent the case back to Texas, where prosecutors must decide whether to retry Mr. Burdine or free him.
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