Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions 2014
Opinions 501 - 865 of 865
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0007-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0007-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0007-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0008-13
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 2000, appellant pled guilty to aggregate theft and elected to have the judge assess punishment without an agreed recommendation. The judge assessed appellant's punishment at ten years' imprisonment but…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0008-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0008-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0613-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0613-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was charged with indecency with a child and aggravated sexual assault of a child. After the victim completed her direct-examination testimony, the defense's first question on cross-examination was, "Did you…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0646-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0646-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was a native Spanish speaker who did not understand English. The trial judge was aware of this fact at trial but did not appoint an interpreter. The question before the Court of Criminal Appeals in this case…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0876-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0876-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pled guilty to driving while intoxicated. The trial judge accepted his plea and ordered him to pay $7,767.88 in restitution to Lubbock Power and Light (LP&L) for repairing a utility pole that appellant's car…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1724-13
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,782-01
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,869-01
Date: April 4, 2014
Docket Number: WR-63,282-04
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: AP-77,023
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the robbery-murder of eighty-year-old A.B. Towery, Sr. Towery was walking back to his apartment after purchasing groceries when appellant asked to use…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0057-14
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0090-14
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0143-14
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0144-14
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0153-14
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0446-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault, for which the jury sentenced him to thirty-five years in the penitentiary. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed his conviction, however, holding that appellant was…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0669-13
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0669-13
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0669-13
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of the third-degree felony offense of tampering with evidence, on a theory of concealment, for reaching into his pocket, pulling out a crack pipe, and dropping it to the ground…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1579-13
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1651-13
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: WR-57,345-03
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,644-01
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0195-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was arrested pursuant to an Ector County complaint. He made bail and was released. Afterwards, at the behest of Midland County law enforcement, the complaining witness in the Ector County case contacted…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1296-13
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1416-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Larry Berry owned a Budget Blinds franchise in San Antonio from 2004 to 2005. Starting in 2004, customers began complaining that appellant had taken payments for orders but never delivered products as promised.…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1560-12
Justia Opinion Summary: On original submission, the Court of Criminal Appeals held Section 33.02(b) of the Texas Penal Code facially unconstitutional. The State filed a motion for rehearing raising three grounds. The Court denied all three…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1638-13
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1723-12
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1723-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant David Brown was on trial for murder. On what would have been the final day of trial in the guilt phase, appellant sustained a gunshot wound to the head. After a one-day recess, the trial judge ruled that…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: WR-77,246-07
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,561-01
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: AP-76,964
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted applicant of the offense of capital murder. In his application for a writ of habeas corpus, applicant claimed that his mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0066-14
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0106-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0498-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0498-13
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, appellant plead guilty to burglary of a habitation and, pursuant to a plea agreement, was placed on three years' deferred-adjudication community supervision and fined $300. The Order of Deferred Adjudication…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0536-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0536-13
Justia Opinion Summary: When appellant was arrested and charged with sexual assault, he filled out a financial affidavit indicating that he was indigent. He was a 48-year-old carpenter who had lost his job a month earlier and was living in his…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0954-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0955-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0956-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1411-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1466-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1467-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1474-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1509-12
Justia Opinion Summary: During voir dire, the judge presiding over appellant Damian Easley's family-violence assault trial prohibited counsel from discussing different legal standards of proof and contrasting those with standards with the…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1512-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1601-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1604-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1649-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1700-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1777-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1798-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1805-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1806-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1807-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1808-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1809-13
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-73,965-04
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-73,965-04
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-76,736-02
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator Rosali Bonilla was an inmate serving a sentence for aggravated sexual assault. He wrote a letter to the Harris County District Clerk asking for information about the amount that it would cost to buy his trial and…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-78,986-01
Justia Opinion Summary: Darrell Cockrell did not receive an interpreter, and was not able to understand a substantial portion of the proceedings at his jury trial. He applied for habeas relief, arguing his trial counsel was ineffective in…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-78,986-01
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,894-01
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,920-01
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,940-01
Date: March 5, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,906-01
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: AP-76,375
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0193-13
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0193-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Manley Johnson was charged with and convicted of, aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. The judgment ordered him "to pay all fines, court costs, and restitution as indicated above." The amount of $234 was…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0733-13
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1095-12
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1095-12
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1095-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Anthony Granville was arrested for causing a disturbance on a school bus. His cell phone was taken from him during the booking procedure and placed in the jail property room. Later that day, a Huntsville Police "School…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1544-12
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1544-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Christopher Garfias was charged with and convicted of aggravated robbery by threat and aggravated assault causing bodily injury. On appeal, Garfias argued that these multiple convictions violated his constitutional right…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1590-13
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-37,658-03
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,302-01
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,439-01
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,831-01
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,853-01
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,865-01
Date: February 19, 2014
Docket Number: WR-65,999-04
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1369-12
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1369-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Craig Reynolds was charged with and convicted of failure to comply with sex-offender registration requirements. Appellant served his entire sentence and was released in August of 1995. The registration statute…
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-78,781-02
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,080-01
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,099-01
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,126-04
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,126-05
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,643-01
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,657-01
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: AP-77,020
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee Larry Ray Swearingen, was convicted in 2000 of capital murder for which he was sentenced to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgment and sentence. He then filed seven applications for writs of…
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0180-13
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0180-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was charged with evading arrest with a motor vehicle. He pleaded no contest and received two years' deferred-adjudication community supervision. In March 2008, the State filed a motion to adjudicate his guilt.…
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0824-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Joshua Ragston was indicted for one count of capital murder, one count of murder, and one count of aggravated robbery, all stemming from an incident that occurred in 2009, when appellant was 17 years old.…
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1339-13
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1454-13
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1682-13
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1701-13
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: WR-52,082-10
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,035-01
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,114-01
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,815-01
Date: February 3, 2014
Docket Number: AP-77,032
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0530-13
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0530-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant signed an operating agreement with Priefert Manufacturing Co., Inc. to sell Priefert's farm and ranch equipment on consignment. Appellant agreed to sell this equipment at his retail store in Stephenville,…
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-64,883-04
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-74,963-02
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-74,963-03
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-78,989-01
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Steven Weinstein was convicted of murdering Jerry Glaspie. He filed a post-conviction application for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was denied due process because: (1) the State failed to disclose…
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-78,989-01
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,644-01
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,279-02
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,713-01
Date: January 29, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,751-01
Date: January 21, 2014
Docket Number: WR-55,690-05
Date: January 16, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,784-01
Date: January 16, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,784-02
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: AP-77,028
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-0945-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1231-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1272-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1361-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1435-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1449-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1468-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1469-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1487-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1490-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1529-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1547-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1548-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1551-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1581-12
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1581-12
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and was sentenced to thirty years. On the morning that jury selection was scheduled to begin, the trial court heard argument on appellant's pretrial motion…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: PD-1683-13
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-56,850-03
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-75,599-03
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,318-02
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathan Salvador was a laboratory technician at the Houston Police Department's Crime Lab Division. It was discovered that during his six-year tenure, he committed professional misconduct by using evidence in one case…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,318-02
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-79,393-02
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,402-01
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,630-01
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: WR-80,716-01
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