Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions 2012
Opinions 1001 - 1468 of 1468
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0570-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murder and the court granted defendant's petition for discretionary review on one ground: whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Fifth Amendment right against compelled…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0795-11
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0795-11
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0795-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI). In this second petition for discretionary review filed by defendant, the court determined that the court of appeals erred by holding that a driver must signal a…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0958-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with indecent exposure, enhanced with a prior conviction for the same offense. A conflict existed between the trial court's oral denial of a motion to quash defendant's information and its…
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1691-11
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-29,898-03
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-37,661-05
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-39,596-03
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-40,255-10
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-64,346-03
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,364-01
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,392-01
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,456-01
Date: April 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,460-01
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0062-12
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0220-12
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0242-12
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0243-12
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0658-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with two counts of assault on a public servant. The court of appeals subsequently held that his trial proceedings, which were convened at the prison-chapel courtroom, were not closed to the public,…
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0916-11
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury found defendant guilty of arson for the burning of an insured and mortgaged vehicle. The trial court assessed his punishment at confinement for ten years and one day. The First Court of Appeals reversed,…
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1161-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1161-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with possessing cocaine in an amount less than one gram. A laboratory report was admitted into evidence, but the analyst who conducted the test and prepared the report did not testify. The court…
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1234-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1234-11
Justia Opinion Summary: After the trial judge denied his motion to suppress methamphetamine found during a traffic stop, defendant pled guilty to its possession pursuant to a plea bargain. He then appealed the trial judge's suppression ruling.…
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1643-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1644-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1645-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1914-11
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-47,387-02
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-73,965-02
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,730-02
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,228-02
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,365-01
Date: April 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-9,710-41
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,766
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0245-12
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0685-11
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0685-11
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0849-11
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0849-11
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-30,751-10
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-45,609-18
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-73,255-03
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,799-03
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,392-02
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,329-01
Date: April 4, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,397-01
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,754
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,757
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0010-12
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0073-12
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0074-12
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0075-12
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0165-12
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0241-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0674-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0674-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0674-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0675-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0675-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Numbers: PD-0674-11, PD-0675-11, PD-0676-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of three different offenses related to the possession of various items that could be associated with drug trafficking. In a motion to suppress the results of the search, defendant alleged that the…
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0676-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0676-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0676-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0779-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Immediately before the voir dire commenced at his trial, defendant requested that he be permitted to ask the members of the venire panel whether they understood that the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt…
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1233-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-52,843-11
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-61,864-04
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-61,864-05
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-69,107-07
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,603-03
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,685-03
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-75,987-03
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,159-04
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,845-01
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,951-01
Date: March 28, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,178-03
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0068-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted for various counts of aggravated assault. At issue was whether a variance between the allegations in the charging instrument and the proof at trial rendered the evidence legally insufficient to…
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1054-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of the offense of theft of $20,000 or more but less than $100,000. The Sixth Court of Appeals held that the evidence was legally insufficient to support defendant's conviction and rendered a…
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-11,465-23
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-50,840-05
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-60,547-09
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-62,840-02
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-7,454-38
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-75,915-02
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,983-01
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,246-01
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,295-01
Date: March 21, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,302-01
Date: March 14, 2012
Docket Number: WR-19,881-04
Date: March 14, 2012
Docket Number: WR-61,434-10
Date: March 14, 2012
Docket Number: WR-64,748-04
Date: March 14, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,684-03
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0324-11
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury found defendant guilty of manslaughter, made an affirmative finding that he used a deadly weapon, and assessed his punishment at 20 years in prison. When subsequent DNA testing revealed that the biological…
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0551-10
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0551-10
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0551-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to injury to a child and received five years' deferred adjudication and a fine. The conditions of his community supervision included sex offender evaluation and counseling, and required that he…
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0997-10
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0997-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for simulating legal process under Texas Penal Code 32.48, claiming that the evidence was legally insufficient to support the jury's verdict. Defendant prepared an "Abatement" document…
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1104-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1356-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court erred in excluding four members of his family…
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1621-10
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1621-10
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1621-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of the offense of driving while intoxicated. The court of appeals reversed the conviction, holding that the constitutional county judge erred in appointing a local municipal-court judge to preside…
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1704-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1706-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1795-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1884-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1911-11
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-23,654-06
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-35,966-03
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-67,610-06
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-71,357-03
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,097-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,576-04
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-74,506-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-75,407-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,013-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,984-01
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,984-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,178-01
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,178-02
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,179-01
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,189-01
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,190-01
Date: March 7, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,195-01
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,739
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0864-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of attempting to obtain a controlled substance "through use of a fraudulent prescription form." The court of appeals acquitted defendant because it found no evidence that she used a fraudulent…
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: WR-20,423-14
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: WR-41,086-05
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: WR-63,440-12
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,219-01
Date: February 29, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,116-01
Date: February 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-13,481-22
Date: February 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-22,613-02
Date: February 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-58,536-03
Date: February 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,056-01
Date: February 22, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,077-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Numbers: AP-76,439, AP-74,185
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to the offense of murder without an agreement for punishment. On direct appeal, the court of appeals affirmed the judgment (Moussazadeh I). Thereafter, defendant filed an application for habeas…
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Numbers: AP-76,488, AP-76,489
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murder and attempted murder and filed subsequent applications for writ of habeas corpus. The habeas court concluded that defendant was entitled to actual innocence relief. The court concluded…
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,489
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,727
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0077-12
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1526-11
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1551-10
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1551-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine in an amount between four and 200 grams. At issue was whether the trial court erred in re-opening the hearing on the motion to suppress shortly…
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-73,350-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,570-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,570-02
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,044-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,062-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,069-01
Date: February 15, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,158-01
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,575
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: AP-76,575
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with and convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. At issue was whether defendant's conviction was now void because the predicate felony conviction used to prove his felony status…
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0225-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant challenged the court of appeal's holding that the trial court properly admitted appellant's un-Mirandized custodial statements made in response to "questioning attendant to an administrative 'booking'…
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0260-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted with charges related to the sexual assault of his daughters and subsequently pled guilty to two counts of injury to a child. At issue was whether Texas Penal Code Section 3.03(b)(2)(B) authorized a…
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0261-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0312-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murder and pled true to one enhancement count. At issue was whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that MySpace profiles were…
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1112-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1153-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1549-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1609-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1610-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1611-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1638-11
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-23,125-07
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-37,311-04
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-45,641-02
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-59,390-08
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-75,804-02
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,193-02
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,966-01
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,999-01
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,035-01
Date: February 8, 2012
Docket Number: WR-77,052-01
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1108-11
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1491-11
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1539-11
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: WR-14,041-27
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: WR-31,451-09
Date: February 1, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,919-01
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0245-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Scott Kirsch, was convicted of his second driving while intoxicated (DWI) offense. A passerby witnessed Appellant stopped in the middle of the road at an intersection. After a few moments, he began slowly…
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0527-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued on appeal that his trial was unfair because the trial court compelled him to testify at the punishment phase in violation of his Fifth Amendment right to silence. The court of appeals held that defendant…
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1067-10
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1067-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of an eight-year-old child, his step-daughter. On appeal, defendant contended that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the…
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1095-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murdering his wife. The trial judge denied defendant's motion to suppress his statements to police during custodial questioning at a hospital after a magistrate had given him his Article 15.17…
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1095-10
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1095-10
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1737-11
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1809-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charge with aggravated robbery. Because the trial court's notations on the defense motions at issue were not memorialized in a written order, the court of appeals dismissed the state's appeal for want of…
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-14,689-09
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-14,689-10
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-69,222-03
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,780-01
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,823-01
Date: January 25, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,983-01
Date: January 23, 2012
Docket Number: WR-69,470-02
Date: January 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-20,444-04
Date: January 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-61,864-04
Date: January 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-72,503-02
Date: January 18, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,873-01
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-0877-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1403-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1443-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1458-10
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1581-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1620-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1657-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1682-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: PD-1778-11
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-33,157-02
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-66,304-05
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-66,304-06
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-66,304-07
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-69,690-03
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-73,105-02
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-75,853-04
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,378-01
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,378-02
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,378-03
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,378-04
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,627-02
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,859-01
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,884-01
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,884-02
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,884-03
Date: January 11, 2012
Docket Number: WR-76,951-01
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