Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions 2022
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0257-21
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0257-21
Justia Opinion Summary: In late June 2013, Appellant Danna Cyr and her husband, Justin Cyr, took their four-month-old child, J.D., to the emergency room in Lubbock. Upon their arrival, medical staff quickly discovered J.D. was suffering from…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-89,188-01
Justia Opinion Summary: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals filed and set this application to determine the appropriate disposition in light of Applicant Phillip Dennis’ pleadings for post-conviction habeas relief. In 2017, Applicant was…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,068-02
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: AP-77,081
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Gustavo Sandoval was charged with the capital murder of Javier Vega, Jr. (“Harvey”), by intentionally causing his death in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery. A jury found Appellant…
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0441-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Saul Ranulfo Herrera Rios was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. He appealed, arguing that he did not waive his federal constitutional right to a jury trial and that the state statutory procedures…
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0441-21
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,780-01
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,780-01
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,354-02
Justia Opinion Summary: A number of defendants in misdemeanor cases arising in Kinney County, Texas filed habeas applications in a district court in Travis County (the District Court). The District Court permitted those applications to remain…
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,573-01
Date: December 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,275-01
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0582-21
Justia Opinion Summary: After a trial court denied his suppression motion, Appellant Tairon Jose Monjaras pled guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment. On appeal, Appellant argued the…
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,503-01
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0256-21
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0341-22
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-61,522-02
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,982-01
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Genovevo Salinas Salinas appealed the denial of his application for habeas relief. He argued he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel at his second murder trial. The underlying offense involved the…
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,273-01
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,278-01
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,278-01
Date: November 9, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,876-01
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0145-21
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0154-22
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0493-22
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0799-19
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0799-19
Justia Opinion Summary: A police officer stopped Shiela Hardin for committing the traffic offense of “failing to maintain a single marked lane of traffic” when he observed the right rear tire of her rented U-Haul touch and drive on the striped…
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0799-19
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0799-19
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,423-04
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,158-01
Date: November 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,158-01
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0242-19
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0242-19
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0242-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant William Rogers was originally charged in a two-count indictment for Burglary of a Habitation predicated on either the intent to commit a felony, or attempting and having committed a felony. Count I alleged…
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-82,340-02
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,016-02
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,037-01
Date: October 19, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,041-01
Date: October 19, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,041-01
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0034-20
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0034-20
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,880-02
Justia Opinion Summary: The trial court’s certification form in this case displayed five checkboxes detailing five options regarding the right of appeal. Two options were checked, saying that the case “is a plea bargain case and the defendant…
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,554-01
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,947-01
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,152-01
Date: October 12, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,152-01
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: AP-77,046
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Henry Skinner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. He filed numerous Chapter 64 motions seeking post-conviction DNA testing. Most recently, the convicting court found that he did not show ti…
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0848-20
Justia Opinion Summary: In separate indictments, a grand jury charged Appellant Stoyan Anastassov with two instances of second-degree-felony indecency with a child by sexual contact. The indictments alleged that Appellant, a professional tennis…
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0848-20
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,093-01
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,106-01
Date: October 5, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,106-01
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0504-20
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0504-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Police organized a “controlled buy” of drugs wherein a confidential informant purchased crack cocaine from Appellant April Williams. Based on her sale of drugs to the informant, Appellant was indicted for delivery of a…
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0504-20
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,208-01
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,208-01
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Floyd Woods was charged by two indictments with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Each indictment alleged possession of a different firearm. The indictments alleged the same date for the offenses and…
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,024-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0449-21
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Appellant Phillip Campbell of murdering Alexandria Wright (“Jade”) by manual strangulation. In his testimony at trial, Appellant contended that on the night of Jade’s death, he and Jade had engaged in…
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-02
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, a grand jury returned two indictments in two separate cases, each charging Applicant Jonathan Kibler with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Applicant pleaded…
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,197-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,582-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,582-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-01
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-02
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-03
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-03
Date: September 21, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,865-03
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0310-20
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0310-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Carroll Weathermon saw appellant Mickey Perkins standing over Lana Hyles who was on the ground. Weathermon did not know Hyles or Appellant prior to that day. She began honking her horn and saw Appellant grab Hyles by the…
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,544-01
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,330-01
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,330-02
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,399-01
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0096-21
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0096-21
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0097-21
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0097-21
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0284-21
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in this case was whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel precluded the State from prosecuting appellant Cedric Richardson for the aggravated assault of one victim…
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1089-20
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1089-20
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1124-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Terri Lang was convicted of organized retail theft (ORT). The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals subsequently found the evidence insufficient to support Appellant’s ORT conviction and remanded the case to the…
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1124-19
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-02
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-03
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-04
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-05
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-06
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-54,480-07
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,277-01
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,841-01
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,841-01
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,841-01
Date: August 24, 2022
Docket Number: WR-94,001-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0388-21
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0388-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Silas Parker was charged with possession with intent to deliver four hundred grams or more of a controlled substance, namely, psilocybin. Appellant contested the legality of the search warrant on the ground…
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0677-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Harold Jefferson was indicted for one count of sexual assault and one count of indecency with a child. The State amended the indictment to add two more sexual-assault counts. On appeal, Appellant argued the…
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0677-21
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,323-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,323-02
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,519-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,525-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,505-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,543-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,690-01
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,690-02
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0354-21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted review in this case to determine whether the court of appeals erred when it held that a criminal defendant could never waive the right to counsel at a retrospective competency…
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0355-21
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-64,603-03
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-64,603-04
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-89,804-02
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,266-01
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,266-01
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,445-01
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,862-01
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0243-20
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0268-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Darryl Joe was charged with and convicted of cargo theft. He challenged the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction, arguing that the goods were not cargo, he was never in possession of the…
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0268-21
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0408-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Syed Nawaz was convicted on two counts of injury to a child, but under different subsections of Texas Penal Code Section 22.04: 22.04(a)(1) and 22.04(a)(2). Appellant argued on appeal that his two convictions…
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0845-20
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0845-20
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,486-01
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0456-21
Justia Opinion Summary: For his possession of a video that represented itself as a French nudist documentary, Appellant Carlos Romo, Jr. was convicted of possession of child pornography. The issue before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was…
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0456-21
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: WR-25,632-03
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,442-01
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,442-02
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-41,121-03
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-70,963-02
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-70,963-02
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-70,963-02
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-70,963-02
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-72,123-03
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-72,123-03
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-72,123-03
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,328-01
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,662-01
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,662-01
Date: May 18, 2022
Docket Number: WR-44,786-06
Date: May 18, 2022
Docket Number: WR-44,786-06
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Richard Rivers was serving two sentences that involved Texas’ mandatory supervision statute in both its automatic and discretionary forms. The question his appeal presented for the Texas Court of Criminal…
Date: May 18, 2022
Docket Number: WR-47,915-04
Date: May 18, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,587-01
Date: May 18, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,717-01
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0027-21
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0027-21
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0027-21
Justia Opinion Summary: During a capital murder investigation, investigators obtained a search warrant for Appellee John Baldwin’s phone pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure article 18.0215(c)(5)(B). In a motion to suppress, Appellee…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0307-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Sholomo David was indicted for third-degree felony tampering with physical evidence. The State’s theories were that Appellant “altered,” “concealed,” or “destroyed” marijuana when he dumped it into a toilet…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0881-20
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0881-20
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0881-20
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2018, Appellant Crystal Mason was convicted of illegal voting, then a second-degree felony, and sentenced to five years’ confinement. Appellant filed a petition for discretionary review to the Texas Court of Criminal…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1035-20
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1035-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Vincent Stredic was tried by jury, accused of murder. During deliberations, jurors disagreed about certain testimony. By statute, testimony may be read back on a point on which the jurors disagree. But instead…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1035-20
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1234-20
Justia Opinion Summary: After Appellant Mario Martell was placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for a third-degree felony drug offense, he stopped reporting to his probation officer and was considered an absconder. Nearly twenty…
Date: May 4, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1092-20
Date: May 4, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1092-20
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2017 Appellant Maurice Edwards was indicted for aggravated sexual assault alleged to have been committed in 2003. He filed an application for pretrial habeas corpus seeking dismissal of the charge as barred by the…
Date: May 4, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,719-01
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-41,654-05
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-41,654-05
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-41,654-05
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,030-01
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,030-02
Date: April 27, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,798-01
Date: April 25, 2022
Docket Number: WR-72,702-03
Date: April 20, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0253-21
Date: April 20, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0254-21
Date: April 20, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0255-21
Date: April 20, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,646-01
Date: April 13, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,641-01
Date: April 13, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,657-01
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0157-20
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0157-20
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0157-20
Justia Opinion Summary: After biting off his ex-wife’s new boyfriend’s earlobe, Appellant Robert Wade, III was charged with aggravated assault by causing serious bodily injury. During his trial, Appellant testified that, in his opinion, biting…
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0424-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Larry Chambers, Jr. was convicted by jury of possession of a controlled substance after a police officer found drugs during a traffic stop. The officer claimed he initiated the stop because Appellant’s truck…
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0469-19
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0469-19
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0469-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Nathan Sanders was charged with violating Texas Penal Code section 42.07(a)(7), the electronic harassment statute. Appellant filed a pre-trial application for habeas corpus relief on the basis that the statute…
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0478-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Leonardo Nuncio was charged with violating Texas Penal Code section 42.07(a)(1), the obscene harassment statute. Appellant filed a pre-trial application for writ of habeas corpus on the basis that the statute…
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1123-19
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1123-19
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1123-19
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Charles Barton was charged with violating Texas Penal Code section 42.07(a)(7), the electronic harassment statute. Appellant filed a motion to quash the information, arguing that the statute was…
Date: April 6, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,612-01
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: AP-77,102
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Ruben Gutierrez planned and, with two accomplices, committed the robbery and murder of eighty-five-year-old Escolastica Harrison, the owner of a mobile-home park in Brownsville. After his conviction was…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0166-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Danny Alcoser was convicted of family violence assault with a prior conviction, endangering a child, and interference with an emergency request for assistance. He appealed, arguing that he was entitled to a new…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0166-20
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0322-21
Justia Opinion Summary: In the early morning hours of August 20, 2016, police and medics responded to multiple emergency calls regarding a drug overdose at the Texas A&M Sigma Nu fraternity house. Callers said that they saw drugs and that…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0574-19
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0574-19
Justia Opinion Summary: During the guilt phase of Appellant Adrian Valadez’s jury trial for third-degree possession of marihuana, the trial court admitted over various defense objections evidence of extraneous drug incidents. The jury found…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Numbers: PD-0695-20, PD-0696-20, PD-0697-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant David Spillman, Jr. was convicted by jury of two counts of assault of a public servant and one count of possession of methamphetamine. The court of appeals affirmed his convictions. The Texas Court of Criminal…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0696-20
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0697-20
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: WR-88,008-03
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,861-01
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,441-01
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,337-01
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,585-01
Date: March 16, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0545-20
Date: March 16, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0545-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Kevin Ratliff, the Llano chief of police, was convicted by a jury of two counts of official oppression (a third-degree felony), and one count of the misdemeanor offense of tampering with a governmental record.…
Date: March 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-74,562-02
Date: March 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-74,562-02
Date: March 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-74,562-02
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0601-20
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0602-20
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0603-20
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0935-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0936-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0937-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0938-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0939-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0940-21
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: WR-90,383-02
Date: March 3, 2022
Docket Number: AP-77,104
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Michael Gonzales appealed a trial court order denying his motion for post-conviction DNA testing filed pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 64.1 Specifically, the trial court determined that…
Date: March 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0025-21
Date: March 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0025-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Daniel Garcia was convicted by jury of aggravated sexual assault. He was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution to the Office of the Attorney General. The court of…
Date: March 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0216-21
Date: March 2, 2022
Docket Numbers: PD-0217-21, PD-0216-21
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim stemming from allegedly bad advice about probation eligibility. Specifically, the issue was the measure…
Date: March 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-89,538-01
Justia Opinion Summary: In May 2017, a jury convicted Applicant Joseph Colone of capital murder, murder of more than one person during the same criminal transaction. From this, he was sentenced to death. As was noted in the Texas Court of…
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,188-01
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,188-01
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicant Ray Hicks pled guilty to attempted forgery of a government instrument in 2013 and was sentenced, under a plea agreement, to 180 days of confinement in a state jail facility. Applicant filed this application for…
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,483-01
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0287-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals were two distinct issues, one at the guilt stage and one at the punishment stage. The guilt stage issue was whether Appellant Happy Pham was entitled to a “threat of deadly…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0287-20
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0287-20
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,042-01
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0026-21
Justia Opinion Summary: In the course of Appellant Christopher Holder’s capital murder trial, the State admitted evidence of his cell-phone site location information (CSLI) to establish his whereabouts during the weekend in which the offense…
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0108-20
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0108-20
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0109-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Bradley Shumway voluntarily confessed to his pastor and then later to his wife: he pushed aside a pre-verbal, seventeen-month-old infant’s diaper and touched her genital region with his hands, mouth, and penis.…
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0109-20
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1124-20
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Jace Laws was charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer. When defense counsel received the proposed jury charge, he learned that the judge intended to require an alternate juror to retire with the…
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,959-01
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-01
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-01
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-02
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-02
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-03
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-03
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-04
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,513-04
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,405-01
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0034-21
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Cornell Witcher was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Holding that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction, the court of appeals reversed the judgment. The question in this case…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0034-21
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0183-21
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 1998, Appellee Leonardo Garcia pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft. In May 2007, he pleaded guilty to another misdemeanor theft charge. On that charge, he was sentenced to ten days in jail with three days…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0234-20
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2018, Appellant Christopher Rubio was convicted by a jury of the capital murder of the mother of his children and her new boyfriend. Because the State had not sought the death penalty, Appellant was automatically…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-0234-20
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1053-19
Justia Opinion Summary: The State sought to illustrate the testimony of an accident reconstruction expert along with testimony regarding other forensic evidence with a series of computer animations. The three computer animations at issue each…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: PD-1053-19
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-91,731-01
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Applicant Aaron Matthews pled guilty to delivery of a controlled substance, namely cocaine, in an amount less than one gram, a state jail felony offense. He was sentenced to 180 days. In 2019, Applicant was…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,754-01
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-92,754-02
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: WR-93,410-01
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