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No, not necessarily. Um, your case isn’t over if you have been convicted of a criminal offense. That’s just where the postconviction proceedings start. You’ll have the right to a direct appeal. If your direct appeal doesn’t go in your favor, you’ll also be able to file a petition for discretionary review to the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin. Um, and if you are successful there, your case still isn’t over.
You can continue fighting through postconviction remedies like an 1107 rid of habius corpus which is where you would raise issues that your constitutional rights have been violated and you’re being confined based on a constitutional violation.
You also have u postconviction DNA um motions that can be filed if there’s something in your in your case that wasn’t tested.
Um and then in test in Texas we also have junk science rits of habius corpus.
If you were convicted through a process that involves some sort of science that is now changed or been found to be junk science, you can also get your case overturned through those process.
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