Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions 2011
Opinions 1 - 500 of 1474
Date: December 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,845-01
Date: December 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-09,218-06
Date: December 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-11,584-09
Date: December 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-18,391-04
Date: December 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-6,867-16
Date: December 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,289-04
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,207
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murder in the course of committing a robbery, which was a capital offense. On direct appeal, defendant raised 56 points of error. Finding no reversible error, the court affirmed the judgment…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,289
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder, specifically the intentional murder of two individuals during the same criminal transaction. On direct appeal, defendant raised nine points of error and the court found them to…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,545
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to eighty years' imprisonment. After his conviction was affirmed defendant filed an application for writ of habeas corpus claiming that his trial counsel rendered…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,620
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possession with the intent to deliver cocaine and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Defendant then filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus under Article 11.07, in which he contended…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,645
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0086-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of four counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The court of appeals affirmed, holding that the outcry witness's testimony from a…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0119-11
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0119-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted for the state-jail felony of debit card abuse. At issue was whether the terms "use" and "present" in the debit-card-abuse statute were mutually exclusive so that there was no overlap in the…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0713-11
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1485-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee was indicted for the murder of her husband nearly 23 years later. Appellee filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, alleging that the pre-indictment delay violated, inter alia, her rights to due process, due…
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1677-11
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-29,499-06
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-47,098-02
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-68,526-04
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,524-01
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,785-01
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,802-01
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,819-01
Date: December 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,831-01
Date: December 13, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0551-10
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,668
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death and this was a direct appeal of the trial court's ruling on a motion filed in the 251st District Court of Randall County. In the course of resolving claims…
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Numbers: PD-0064-11, PD-0065-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. At issue on appeal was whether a court's refusal to compel testimony from a defense witness based on her invocation of her 5th Amendment…
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0065-11
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0796-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of indecency with a child. At issue was whether the "grooming" of children for sexual molestation was a legitimate subject of expert testimony. The court rejected defendant's claim that the record…
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0796-10
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0796-10
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0806-11
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0807-11
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1540-11
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1708-08
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1708-08
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Numbers: PD-1708-08, PD-1709-08
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of codeine. The court's order granting review in the firearm case, PD-1708-08, was a clerical error and the petition for discretionary review in…
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1709-08
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1709-08
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1709-08
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: WR-20,734-03
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: WR-48,976-02
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,359-01
Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,724-01
Date: November 29, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,817-01
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,345
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder by stabbing the victim with a knife 107 times in the course of attempting to commit or committing kidnapping or robbery. Based upon the jury's answers to the special punishment…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,378
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. The court affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence on direct appeal but his sentence was later vacated by a federal district court. A new punishment…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,698
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0404-10
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0404-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant testified to an alibi defense at the guilt phase of his aggravated robbery trial and then exercised his Fifth Amendment right not to testify at the punishment phase. The prosecutor, in her final punishment…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0610-11
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: WR-4,842-12
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: WR-48,077-09
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: WR-68,057-03
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,719-01
Date: November 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1397-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,691
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,692
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,693
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0516-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0592-10
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0592-10
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant of driving while intoxicated after the trial judge denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a search warrant for blood. The court of appeals held that the search-warrant affidavit…
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0802-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0813-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1049-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1504-11
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-15,848-27
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-34,608-09
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-45,875-02
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-56,955-03
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,361-01
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,361-01
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,230-02
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,230-03
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,672-01
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Numbers: AP-76,483, AP-76,484
Justia Opinion Summary: In these applications for post conviction writs of habeas corpus, applicant contended that he was denied effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel misinformed him about the terms of a plea offer made by…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,677
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0435-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0435-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted by a jury of burglary of a habitation and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. The Eleventh Court of Appeals reversed defendant's conviction, holding that the trial judge erred by denying his…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0659-10
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0659-10
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant for murder and for engaging in organized criminal activity. In a petition for discretionary review, defendant contended that the court of appeals erred by holding that the trial court did not…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0839-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0945-10
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0945-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of three offenses of indecency with a child by exposure. The court of appeals affirmed, rejecting defendant's double jeopardy argument that he received multiple punishments for the same offense.…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0952-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1155-10
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when a fight broke out between the Kirby Block gang and the Manett Boys gang. Defendant was indicted and went to trial for murder. The jury charge contained instructions on defense of a third person and…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1412-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1419-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1502-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1533-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1534-11
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1770-10
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1770-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and she appealed. The Fifth Court of Appeals found error in the trial court's "synergistic effect" instruction to the jury. While the court agreed with the…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: WR-30,751-08
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: WR-67,060-04
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,580-01
Date: November 7, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,675
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,552
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,669
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,672
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0193-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0596-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0820-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0858-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0875-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Numbers: PD-0884-11, PD-0885-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of reckless driving and deadly conduct. The court of appeals concluded that defendant's two convictions represented multiple punishments for the same offense in violation of the prohibition…
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0885-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0972-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1152-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1154-11
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-34,829-03
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-36,954-06
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-59,259-02
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-59,259-03
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,050-01
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,414-01
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,570-01
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,570-02
Date: October 27, 2011
Docket Number: WR-66,977-02
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: WR-27,576-18
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: WR-46,267-08
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,853-03
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,647-01
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,647-02
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0273-10
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0273-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of aggravated robbery and punishment was assessed at 38 years' imprisonment. The First Court of Appeals affirmed the judgement, holding that the trial court did not err by failing to submit a…
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0481-11
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0522-11
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0927-09
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1421-11
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1779-08
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: WR-18,391-04
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,309-02
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,524-01
Date: October 19, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,535-01
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,157
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of intentional murder committed in the course of a robbery, a capital offense, and the jury answered the statutory special issues in such a way that the trial court was obligated to assess the…
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0847-11
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0918-11
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1298-11
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1722-10
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1722-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted by a jury of driving while intoxicated. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction and the court granted review to determine: "In a driving while intoxicated case, where the evidence is legally…
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-16,548-02
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-17,575-06
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-20,720-10
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-21,383-04
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-39,054-38
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-42,645-18
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-44,983-08
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-47,645-08
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-72,807-02
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-74,000-04
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,835-01
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,835-01
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,835-01
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,481-01
Date: October 12, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,519-01
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,188
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of capital murder for hiring a third party to kill his estranged wife. On direct appeal, the court reviewed defendant's thirty-two points of error and concluded that they were without merit.…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,655
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0042-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0042-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated assault and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. At issue was whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the trial court had…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0117-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted for continuous sexual abuse of a young child under the statute commonly known as Jessica's Law. Without objection from defendant, the offense of aggravated assault was submitted to the jury as a…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0727-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with capital murder. A jury found defendant guilty and the trial court assessed the automatic punishment of confinement for life in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0757-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0773-10
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant of the first degree felony offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child, committed in 2006, in addition to other sex offenses. The court of appeals held that defendant's prior sex-offense…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0808-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0899-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1068-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1126-10
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant of capital murder and the trial court automatically sentenced defendant to life imprisonment without parole. At issue was whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to review defendant's…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1273-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1274-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1275-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1276-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1277-11
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1734-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted for theft by deception for stolen machinery, including a bulldozer. At trial, the jury charge allowed for a conviction without limiting the manner in which the theft was committed. The jury found…
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: WR-11,971-05
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: WR-24,712-07
Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: WR-68,348-02
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0815-11
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0815-11
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-74,685-02
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-74,685-02
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-65,645-02
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-65,645-02
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-25,912-11
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-25,912-11
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted in December of 1995 of capital murder and subsequently, the trial court held a new punishment hearing in May 2009. Based on the jury's answers to the special issues, the trial judge sentenced…
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1524-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted by a jury of family-violence assault on the victim, who was about thirty-eight weeks pregnant with his child at the time of the assault. The State Prosecuting Attorney (SPA) subsequently argued…
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1524-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,435
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant sought habeas corpus relief, alleging that, because he had never been convicted of a sex offense, he was entitled to the requisite due process procedures when the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Parole…
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0852-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted for possession of more than five but less than fifty pounds of marijuana and sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual offender. At issue was whether Brady was applicable when the State failed…
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,176
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Justia Opinion Summary: Four police officers came to defendant's welding shop looking for a person wanted in another county. Defendant gave the officers consent to search for that person. The officers, over defendant's objection, ended up…
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1635-10
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-73,466-01
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-73,466-01
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,106-01
Date: September 28, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,106-01
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0275-11
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0276-11
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0538-11
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1030-11
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,378-01
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,378-02
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,378-03
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,378-04
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,438-01
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-76,358-01
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: WR-8,867-20
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1402-09
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1402-09
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1402-09
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0298-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0299-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0300-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0301-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0302-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0303-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0304-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0559-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1071-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0433-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1130-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-75,673-01
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,020
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,020
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,020
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0644-10
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-0644-10
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-23,776-06
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,101
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,101
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-49,114-14
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1633-10
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-74,429-01
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-74,429-02
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-71,783-01
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-25,043-06
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-29,499-04
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: AP-76,101
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: PD-1041-11
Date: September 14, 2011
Docket Number: WR-71,783-01
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