The case can best be summed up by dissent's pithy line "reversed means reversed." In Ex parte LaRoyce Smith, 2006 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 426, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in the face of a per curiam reversal by the United States Supreme Court denies relief. Not sure what to make of the opinion other than Jordan Steiker's quote that the opinion appears to be "a form of defiance and civil disobedience." Taken together with Tennard and Nelson, all decided on the same day, only one conclusion can be reached, more Texas cases are about to be granted cert.
Defiance part III: "Reversed means reversed."
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