Middleton v. State (Unpublished Memo): On the evening of Easter Sunday, 2006, Middleton fired a great number of rounds with his AK-47. He didn’t kill the…
Category: Evidence
Toliver v. State (Unpublished Memo): First degree felony crack-dealing conviction resulting in life sentence is affirmed because inadmissible prior crack deals either weren’t objected to, or…
Sawyer v. State (Unpublished Memo): Sawyer, a student at SFA, was convicted of felony stalking of a fellow SFA student.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…
Ingram v. State (Unpublished Memo): Motion to suppress denied at trial, denial affirmed on appeal. A multi-step traffic stop eventually leads to discovery of cocaine in…
Arroyo v. State (Published): Two key points in this murder case, and an instance of a defendant curing the State’s erroneous questions with his own overly broad efforts to respond.…
Connor v. State (Unpublished Memo): If there’s one thing worse than drunk dialing, it’s drunk dialing from jail as the conversation is being recorded. It’s just…
Kelly v. State (Unpublished Memo): In a murder-for-hire case, a partial confession was admissible because it was made in a non-custodial interrogation.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…
Gibbs v. State (Unpublished Memo): Silence and “no objection” are different things. Gibbs filed a motion to suppress some drug-related evidence prior to trial. Having obtained…