Editor’s note: Texas Lawyer turned 25 on April 3. To mark our anniversary, each week the editorial department is looking back at the news we covered over the past 25 years and selecting one story to update for readers. This week, senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys revisits an article in the Sept. 11, 2006, issue of Texas Lawyer, “A Non-Existent Defense.”
Three years after Friendswood dentist Clara Harris was convicted of murdering her orthodontist husband by running over him in a Mercedes-Benz, she filed an application for a habeas corpus writ that alleged her criminal-defense lawyer George Parnham provided ineffective assistance during her trial.
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