Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions 2012
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1468
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,302-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,377-02
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,747-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,879-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,879-02
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,879-03
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,977-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,016-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,102-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,202-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,202-02
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,239-01
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,239-02
Date: September 12, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,289-01
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-23,125-08
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-40,013-03
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,028-06
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,897-01
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,967-01
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,067-01
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,197-01
Date: September 5, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,259-01
Date: August 23, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0795-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,798
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,837
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,868
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0089-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0641-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0775-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0789-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0790-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0846-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0848-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0862-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0877-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0894-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0901-12
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-52,843-11
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-57,250-06
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-60,619-07
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-62,634-06
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,008-03
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,130-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,138-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,535-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,850-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,329-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,363-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,433-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,678-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,816-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,843-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,856-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,860-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,918-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,974-01
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,974-02
Date: August 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,156-01
Date: August 17, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,248-01
Date: August 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-37,743-08
Date: August 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,570-02
Date: August 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,028-01
Date: August 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,991-02
Date: August 7, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,835
Date: August 1, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,638-02
Date: August 1, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,073-01
Date: July 26, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,070-01
Date: July 26, 2012
Docket Number: WR-78,070-02
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0182-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0271-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0372-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0373-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0374-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0375-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0378-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0386-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0525-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0562-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0644-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0767-12
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-24,927-68
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,909-01
Date: July 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,978-01
Date: July 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-09,655-03
Date: July 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-30,830-08
Date: July 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,705-01
Date: July 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,782-01
Date: July 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,904-01
Date: July 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-65,645-06
Date: July 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,874-01
Date: July 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,919-01
Date: June 29, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1889-11
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,374
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,374
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,376
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,376
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Jonathan Green was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Shortly before the scheduled execution of the sentence on June 30, 2010, he applied for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he was…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,381
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,381
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,547
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Court of Criminal Appeals in this case was a post-conviction application for writ of habeas corpus brought under Article 11.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Applicant Jesse Chaddock…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,615
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Ronald Rogers pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted aggravated sexual assault. Wearing a white mask, he hid in the stall of a women's restroom in an office building and attacked a…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,828
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,829
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,830
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,831
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0287-11
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0288-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Crystal Michelle Watson and Jack Wayne Smith were charged with the offense of attack by dog resulting in death. The jury found them guilty and sentenced each to seven years' confinement and a $5,000 fine. They…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0495-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Narada Hicks was charged with intentional or knowing aggravated assault after he and Angelo Jackson got into a fight over borrowed shoes that ended with Angelo being shot in the leg. The trial judge instructed…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0683-11
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0683-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Before trial, Appellant Jimmy Gonzales filed a motion to suppress following a traffic stop, asserting that his seizure violated the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution. An Abilene police…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0701-12
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0767-10
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0767-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Donald Blanton appealed the nunc pro tunc judgment of the Kaufman County District Court. The Fifth Court of Appeals dismissed the case for want of jurisdiction after concluding that Appellant failed to file a…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1398-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant David Burke was a police officer in Jefferson County. He was indicted for the offense of official oppression, a class A misdemeanor, and the judge moved the case to Bexar County sua sponte. A jury convicted…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1682-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Adbihakim Hassan was tried for a misdemeanor traffic offense before a six-person jury. At jury selection, the State and Appellant were each allocated three peremptory strikes. The venire consisted of fourteen…
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: WR-41,121-02
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: WR-41,121-02
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,603-03
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,685-04
Date: June 27, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,578-01
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,675
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0486-10
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0486-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Thomas Paul Tucker was charged by information with possession of two ounces or less of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a drug-free zone in violation of Texas Health and Safety Code sections 481.121 and…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0573-12
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0769-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Appellant Joseph Dangelo pled guilty to the felony offense of injury to a child. In accordance with a plea agreement and after accepting his plea, the trial court placed Appellant on…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0934-11
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0934-11
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Criminal Appeals granted the petitions of Appellants Kimberly Garrett and Sequeasia Turner for discretionary review, and consolidated them in order to determine whether a trial court had the authority to…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0965-11
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0965-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Jamie Moore challenged the court of appeals' decision to affirm the trial court's judgment that included an order cumulating his sentence in this case for possession of methamphetamine with an earlier sentence…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1117-11
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1117-11
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1169-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Jeri Montgomery caused a three-car collision, during which a passenger in one of the other vehicles was killed. The grand jury indicted Appellant for criminally negligent homicide, alleging that she had made an…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1427-11
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1427-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Mario Castillo filed his notice of appeal one day late. His notice of appeal and motion for extension of time were picked up by Federal Express after business hours on the last day of filing and delivered to…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1547-10
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Court in this case was whether the doctrine of res judicata applied to bar a prosecution for a criminal offense in one county after a prosecutor in another county unsuccessfully attempted to revoke…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1607-10
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1607-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Deborah Bowen's father died in 2001. Her father's will established a family trust, and Appellant's mother was named as the primary beneficiary. The trust was to terminate at her mother's death, and the trust…
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: WR-47,536-04
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,921-03
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,701-01
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,715-01
Date: June 20, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,753-01
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,051
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0160-12
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0624-12
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: WR-39,054-41
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: WR-48,941-02
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: WR-57,998-02
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,769-02
Date: June 13, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,727-01
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0056-11
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0056-11
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0056-11
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved the admissibility of scientific evidence under Texas Rule of Evidence 702 and Kelly v. State. At issue was whether the court of appeals erred in holding that EMIT drug test results were not reliable…
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0122-12
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0323-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder for the death of his girlfriend's two-year-old son. The court of appeals determined that the evidence was legally insufficient to prove that defendant intentionally or knowingly…
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0405-12
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1502-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of driving while intoxicated and the court of appeals reversed the conviction, remanding for a new trial. The state petitioned for discretionary review on two grounds: Did defendant preserve his…
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1516-11
Justia Opinion Summary: The state petitioned for discretionary review challenging the court of appeals' judgment acquitting defendant for her conviction for endangering a child on the basis of insufficient evidence. The court concluded that the…
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: WR-35,401-04
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,014-01
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,600-01
Date: June 6, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,734-01
Date: May 30, 2012
Docket Number: WR-73,997-03
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,270
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,379
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was found guilty of the capital murder of the thirteen-month-old daughter of his girlfriend. On direct appeal, the court reviewed defendant's 20 points of error and found them to be without merit, affirming the…
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,665
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant sought relief from his 55-year sentence for aggravated robbery and this was applicant's first subsequent application for a writ of habeas corpus. Applicant claimed that a new legal basis that was previously…
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,806
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Numbers: PD-0025-12, PD-0026-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, the property manager of the Galleria Shopping Mall in Houston, was charged with unauthorized discharge of industrial waste after a pressure-washing contractor allegedly discharged contaminated water while…
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0026-12
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0145-12
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1035-11
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1035-11
Justia Opinion Summary: In this felony prosecution for possession of ecstasy, the State appealed from the trial court's grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence that defendant contended was obtained as a result of an illegal traffic…
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,492-07
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,774-03
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,603-03
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,479-01
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,554-01
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,607-01
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,637-01
Date: May 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,672-01
Date: May 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1889-11
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0035-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0045-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0054-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0055-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0183-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0281-12
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0442-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court abused its discretion in removing a juror and that defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel…
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0961-07
Justia Opinion Summary: On the court's own motion, the court issued this opinion in the place of the court's October 6, 2010 opinion. This opinion addressed the State's petition for discretionary review challenging the decision by the court of…
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1067-11
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1264-11
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1264-11
Justia Opinion Summary: The state sought reversal of the judgment of the court of appeals, which held that a blood-draw search warrant to be executed in a designated county could not be issued by a statutory county court judge of another…
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1338-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus following the trial court's imposition of deferred-adjudication community supervision, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to properly advise…
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1919-11
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,825-02
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,799-03
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,420-01
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,561-01
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,578-01
Date: May 16, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,579-01
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,792
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,793
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0218-10
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant of capital murder and sentenced him to life in prison with no possibility of parole. On appeal, defendant claimed he was denied due process at his trial. At issue was whether defendant's…
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0230-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the trial court's denial of his Batson motion, which he filed after all of the black venire members in the strike zone were struck by the State. The First Court of Appeals held that the trial court…
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1000-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was arrested for driving while intoxicated and the trial judge subsequently granted her motion to suppress, concluding that the officer lacked reasonable suspicion to make his traffic stop. The state appealed…
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1489-11
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1489-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Prior to his trial, defendant moved to suppress all evidence obtained as a result of the traffic stop on the basis that the officer's traffic stop was improper…
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: WR-31,700-24
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,110-03
Date: May 9, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,494-01
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,783
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,788
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1304-11
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1809-10
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-6,031-11
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-61,456-03
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-64,532-03
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,921-06
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,423-01
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,445-01
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,446-01
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,449-01
Date: May 2, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,505-01
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,175
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,175
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. On direct appeal, the court considered issues related to the murder instruction; expert testimony; the punishment charge; future dangerousness; pre-trial…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,525
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,669
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant was convicted of felony murder and injury to a child where the child chocked on a wad of paper towels while applicant was babysitting him. Applicant subsequently filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,674
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Applicant filed this habeas corpus application in 2006, alleging actual innocence and mental retardation. After the judge of the convicting court heard…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,775
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant was convicted of evading arrest and was found guilty of a state-jail felony that was enhanced to a second-degree felony. Applicant argued that his state-jail conviction was void because the offense alleged was…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,781
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,782
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0082-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0083-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0098-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0140-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0146-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0253-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0309-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0385-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0389-12
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0473-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of ten counts of possession of child pornography. The ten counts were for ten images of unknown children discovered in the "free space" of defendant's computer. In this petition for discretionary…
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