This week the Supreme Court of Texas took action on a couple of Tyler cases. The SCoTX had previously declined to hear hear the Willich case. Then…
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City of Athens v. MacAvoy (Published): An Athens PD officer was sleeping on the job — with a married woman. The husband finds out, and files a…
Morris v. State (Unpublished Memo): Morris got deferred adjudication community supervision on a theft charge. Roughly a year and a half into it, Morris blew off…
In re Tieri (Published): A two front custody battle. On the one hand, there’s New Jersey where the couple and the children lived for most of…
Hurst v. State (Unpublished Memo): A woman let one of her teenaged daughter’s friends sit on the front “ranch hand” bumper of a pickup truck as…
Webb v. State (Unpublished Memo): Webb complains that the trial court didn’t even consider her application for probation of a felony marijuana possession charge. If Webb’s…
Bailey v. State (Unpublished Memo): Evocative, provocative, loaded with death. A reproach, but not a relic. Yet sometimes, a source of justice. Bailey is an African-American. There…
Odds are extremely high that the last word on your case will come from the Cotton Belt Building. If you are thinking that you can…
Christopher v. State (Unpublished Memo): What county has venue when an officer feels something as he pats a suspect down, but doesn’t conduct a strip search…
No Tyler cases in today’s orders before the Supreme Court of Texas. So, just for fun, here’s a great quote from a Blawgletter post on a 7th Circuit banking…