Dewberry v. State (Unpublished Memo): In a case of aggravated assault via shooting, the issue was whether Dewberry was the triggerman. A sprawling multiparty altercation started at…
Category: Criminal Law
Crocker v. State (Published): Since 2005, DWIs from as far back as records can be found can be used to enhance the sentence of a new…
Flores v. State (Unpublished Memo): Conviction of DWI with child affirmed. The question was whether Flores was the driver. He and his family say no. The…
Lewis v. State (Unpublished Memo): The State wanted to sentence Lewis as a habitual offender. The State’s initial notice of intent to use prior convictions was…
Floyd v. State (Unpublished Memo): There was no factual basis to support a Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 38.23(a) jury instruction, thus a failure to…
Hall v. State (Unpublished Memo): DWI conviction challenged on grounds that the officer who administered the horizontal gaze nystagmus test to Hall wasn’t an expert in its use. …
Samet v. State (Unpublished Memo): A third grader testifies to a sexual assault that occurred when he was just about four years old. The defense strategy:…
Crabtree v. State (Unpublished Memo): Crabtree was surprised when the trial court sentenced her to two years of prison for criminally negligent homicide. The Tyler court…
Killgo v. State (Unpublished Memo): Killgo failed to defeat all of the probation revocation findings made by the trial court. so the Tyler court affirms. Killgo’s ten year…
Carter v. State (Unpublished Memo): Conviction for intoxication manslaughter stands even though the defendant’s intoxication may not have been the only cause of the victim’s death. …