Joe Antonio Luna v. The State of Texas |
Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Joe Antonio Luna with a DWI charge.The jury convicted Joe Antonio Luna of the offense of felony driving while intoxicated as enhanced by two prior misdemeanor DWI convictions: one from 1980 and the other from 1989. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. §§ 49.04, 49.09(b)(2). ... More... $0 (02-27-2021 - TX) |
Paul David Doughtery v. The State of Texas |
Waco, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Paul David Doughtery with an Aggravated Assault charge.Appellant has filed one notice of appeal challenging his convictions in Trial Court Case Number 2017-1407-C2. The appeal therefore bears one cause number—appellate cause number 10-19-00021-CR. Appellant... More... $0 (02-25-2021 - TX) |
The State of Texas v. Ricardo Tobias |
Waco, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Ricardo Tobias with a indecency with a child by contact charge.At the State’s request, the trial court took up Tobias’s motion to suppress evidence after the jury had been selected and just before the jury was to be sworn. Tobias's motion to suppress alleged tha... More... $0 (02-25-2021 - TX) |
Paul David Doughtery v. The State of Texas |
Waco, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Paul David Doughtery with an Aggravated Assault charge.Appellant has filed one notice of appeal challenging his convictions in Trial Court Case Number 2017-1407-C2. The appeal therefore bears one cause number—appellate cause number 10-19-00021-CR. Appellant’... More... $0 (02-25-2021 - TX) |
Alejo Vargas v. The State of Texas |
Waco, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Alejo Vargas with a Evading Arrest charge.In his first issue, Vargas argues that the trial court should have excluded a video recording of his oral statements made to police because he did not make a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of his statutory and co... More... $0 (02-24-2021 - TX) |
Robert Alan Cordray v. The State of Texas |
Beaumont, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Robert Alan Cordray with a Theft charge.On July 15, 2019, the day trial began, Cordray filed a handwritten motion for a sixty-day continuance, in which he sought a continuance “so that he may be evaluated[,] and his competency and sanity assessed.” Cordray... More... $0 (02-24-2021 - TX) |
Traylin Coty Watkins v. The State of Texas |
Beaumont, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Traylin Coty Watkins with an Evading Arrest charge.Officer Isiah Volrie, a patrol officer with the Beaumont Police Department, testified that he was wearing his department-issued police uniform and was on patrol in his marked patrol car on September 16, 2017, whe... More... $0 (02-23-2021 - TX) |
Dustin Ray Sanders v. The State of Texas |
Beaumont, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Dustin Ray Sanders with an Assault charge.We first discuss the background of Sanders’ case, presenting the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict.2 The evidence before the jury in the trial shows that in December 2017, Sanders and Hannah ... More... $0 (02-23-2021 - TX) |
Oscar Cerna v. The State of Texas |
Amarillo, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Oscar Cerna with a Murder charge.The minimal record before this court reflects that Appellant was indicted for murder.1 On November 30, 2020, the trial court issued a bench order purportedly raising the amount of his bail to $250,000. The bench order was filed with ... More... $0 (02-21-2021 - TX) |
Ex parte Christopher McManus |
Amarillo, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Christopher McManus with an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Motion to Set Reasonable Bond.McManus was charged with felony evading arrest in cause number 12,053.1 That matter was called for trial in April 2016. McManus failed to appear at that trial and, as a... More... $0 (02-21-2021 - TX) |
Marcus Reed v. The State of Texas |
Amarillo, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Marcus Reed with an Official Oppression charge.As previously mentioned, appellant was convicted of official oppression and aggravated perjury. He argued that his conviction for official oppression was “factually” insufficient because the text messages utilized ... More... $0 (02-20-2021 - TX) |
Calvin Lyons v. The State of Texas |
Texarkana, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Calvin Lyons with a Aggravated Sexual Assault charge.In his sole issue on appeal, Lyons contends that Section 22.021(a)(2)(B) of the Texas Penal Code, which made him strictly liable for having sex with a child under the age of fourteen, violated his right to du... More... $0 (02-19-2021 - TX) |
Dontarious Jamal Scott v. The State of Texas |
Dallas, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Dontarious Jamal Scott with a Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children charge.1. Notice in the Indictment In his first issue, appellant argues the indictment against him for continuous –2– sexual abuse of a child was inadequate under Texas law beca... More... $0 (02-18-2021 - TX) |
Parker Ray Morgan v. The State of Texas |
San Antonio, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Parker Ray Morgan with seeking to appeal the trial court’s order modifying the conditions of his deferred adjudication community supervision..Appellant seeks to appeal the trial court’s order modifying the conditions of his deferred adjudication community su... More... $0 (02-16-2021 - TX) |
Manuel Michael Garcia v. The State of Texas |
San Antonio, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Manuel Michael Garcia with a Capital Murder charge.On February 18, 2015, Garcia hit several people at several different locations with the vehicle he was driving, causing injuries to multiple people and two deaths. The State charged him 04-19-00775-CR -... More... $0 (02-15-2021 - TX) |
Jereme Rucker v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Jereme Rucker with an Aggravated Assault charge.The evidence presented at trial1 The State charged Rucker with intentionally or knowingly threatening Desiree Gonzalez with imminent bodily injury and using a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense. At tr... More... $0 (02-14-2021 - TX) |
William Black v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented William Black with an Aggravated Assault charge.The evidence at trial showed that through Backpage, an online escort service, appellant arranged to have a “car date” with nineteen-year-old Jane Doe, who was engaged in prostitution. They agreed to meet at a bar in... More... $0 (02-14-2021 - TX) |
Ty Lee Whitfield v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Ty Lee Whitfield with a Aggravated Robbery charge.The jury heard evidence that, on August 2, 2016, John Moore was robbed in an HEB parking lot in Buda, Texas. Around 2:00 p.m. that day, Moore parked his Ford F-150 “club cab” truck away from other vehicles in the ... More... $0 (02-14-2021 - TX) |
Appellant, The State of Texas// Cross-Appellant, Saul Jaquez v. Appellee, Saul Jaquez// Cross-Appellee, The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Saul Jaquez with a Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence charge.While on patrol, Officer Joshua Esquivel of the Bulverde Police Department saw a vehicle that appeared to be speeding. Officer Esquivel testified that he stopped the vehicle after he “activat... More... $0 (02-14-2021 - TX) |
Tallion Kyle Taylor v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Tallion Kyle Taylor with a Possession or Promotion of Child Pornography charge.After appellant’s ex-wife reported to the police that appellant had threatened, via a cell phone text message, to disclose an intimate photograph of her, see Tex. Penal Code § 21.1... More... $0 (02-13-2021 - TX) |
Dustin Ray Randig v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Dustin Ray Randig with a Delivery of a Controlled Substance charge.In the early morning hours of September 14, 2017, Deputy Jeremy Jones of the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office was patrolling Highway 95. He pulled over a car with a malfunctioning headlight and fou... More... $0 (02-13-2021 - TX) |
Freddy Uceta v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Freddy Uceta with an Aggravated Assault charge.Uceta’s aggravated-assault charge stemmed from his attack on Detrick Dortch when they were both inmates at the Bell County Jail.1 Jail guard David Guerra testified that on the night of the offense, he was preparing... More... $0 (02-13-2021 - TX) |
Sharon Denise Sanders v. The State of Texas |
Fort Worth, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Sharon Denise Sanders with a Driving While Intoxicated charge.Sanders was arrested for DWI and did not consent to provide a blood specimen. Based on the arresting officer’s probable-cause affidavit, a search warrant issued authorizing the seizure of Sande... More... $0 (02-13-2021 - TX) |
Israel Cardoso-Reyna v. The State of Texas |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Israel Cardoso-Reyna with aProstitution charge.In November 2015, appellant was driving through an area in southeast Austin when he pulled over to talk to a woman standing on the side of the road. He agreed to pay her $20 in return for oral sex. The woman—an under... More... $0 (02-12-2021 - TX) |
In re Guadalupe Padilla |
Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Guadalupe Padilla with an Appeal from an Order Denying DNA Testing.In 2002, a jury found Padilla guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by sexual contact for sexually abusing his girlfriend’s eleven-year-old daughter in 1994, see... More... $0 (02-12-2021 - TX) |
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