Jones v. State (Unpublished Memo): Facing a state jail felony cocaine possession charge, the defendant pled guilty, but decided to represent himself as sentencing was put…
Category: Criminal Law
Middleton v. State (Unpublished Memo): On the evening of Easter Sunday, 2006, Middleton fired a great number of rounds with his AK-47.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…
Toliver v. State (Unpublished Memo): First degree felony crack-dealing conviction resulting in life sentence is affirmed because inadmissible prior crack deals either weren’t objected to,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Sawyer v. State (Unpublished Memo): Sawyer, a student at SFA, was convicted of felony stalking of a fellow SFA student.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…
State for the Protection and Best Interest of EG (Published): Statements in a civil application to compel an incompetent criminal defendant to take his meds aren’t…
Hole v. State (Unpublished Memo): When there’s no objection at trial, a party claiming his counsel had a conflict of interest must show that the conflict…
Goshen v. State (Unpublished Memo): This case points out the “Vannortrick Gap.” Before accepting a plea, trial courts are supposed to let defendants know about the…
Patrick v. State (Unpublished Memo): Patrick took ten years of deferred adjudication for burglary of a habitation. Then she went out and violated the terms of her…
In re State (Published): The State brought a mandamus to disqualify defense counsel. The same defense counsel represented two allegedly drunken drag racers A and B. There’s a potential…
Ingram v. State (Unpublished Memo): Motion to suppress denied at trial, denial affirmed on appeal.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…