Ex parte Derrick Cooke (original by presiding judge keller)
Annotate this CaseApplicant Derrick Cooke was placed on deferred adjudication for family-violence assault, and he was later adjudicated. He argued on appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals that a prior New Mexico conviction was improperly used for enhancement of his sentence. His sentence has since discharged. He claimed, though, that the Court could still review his complaint because he was suffering a collateral consequence of his conviction, namely, the use of the Tarrant County offense to enhance a subsequent family-violence assault in Hood County. The Court disagreed, and dismissed this application.
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