Hurst v. State (Unpublished Memo): A woman let one of her teenaged daughter’s friends sit on the front “ranch hand” bumper of a pickup truck as…
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Weir v. State (Unpublished Memo): This is the companion case to Kelly v. State. Kelly dealt with the wife who put out a “contract” for her husband’s murder. Weir…
Blanton v, State (Unpublished Memo): Burglary of a habitation conviction affirmed because Blanton only presented the Reporter’s Record from the first day of a three day…
In the Interest of TB and JW (Published): This short opinion was most likely published as a word to the wise: If you are appealing the…
Sawyer v. State (Unpublished Memo): Sawyer, a student at SFA, was convicted of felony stalking of a fellow SFA student. Sawyer claimed he had no idea his…
Kelly v. State (Unpublished Memo): In a murder-for-hire case, a partial confession was admissible because it was made in a non-custodial interrogation. Also, law enforcement’s public…
Ex parte Hardwick (Unpublished memo): After a 19-year-old Hardwick pled guilty to a DWI, his grandmother fired his attorney and got him a new one. The…