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Search Petitions, Briefs and Summaries

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PARKER, SILAS

09/15/2021

“Are all anticipatory search warrants are prohibited under Texas law?”

PATTERSON, SAMUEL CRAWFORD

09/15/2021

“Whether the search warrant was facially valid because it incorporated the warrant affidavit, which specifically listed Appellant’s room as containing narcotics.”

CASTANEDANIETO, KEVIN

“Contrary to this Court’s prior decision in this case, the court of appeals expressly defied the ordinarily applicable rules for examining a waiver of a defendant’s rights under Miranda and article 38.22 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure by applying the ‘cat out of the bag’ coercion theory ...

SWINNEY, TIMOTHY AARON

“The Court of Appeals erred by applying the incorrect prejudice standard to determine that the Appellant cannot meet his burden to show the outcome of his trial would have been different had he been correctly advised that only the jury could consider placing him on probation.”

RICHARDSON, EX PARTE CEDRIC

06/23/2021

1. “Does collateral estoppel bar the State from prosecuting a defendant for conduct occurring at a different time and place than the original conduct for which the defendant was acquitted?” 2. “Does collateral estoppel mean that a defendant’s mental state cannot change due to intervening circumst...

DAVID, SHOLOMO

06/09/2021

1. “By holding that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish David’s identity as the individual who committed the offense when he was alone in a locked bathroom with the tampered-with evidence, the Court of Appeals erred by ignoring the circumstantial evidence establishing David’s ident...

EX PARTE ALLEN LANCLOS

06/07/2021

“The appellate court erred by denying relief from the trial court’s abuse of discretion in not setting a personal bond or reducing Lanclos’s bond to an amount affordable to him, which the Code of Criminal Procedure clearly requires as relief.”

HUDDLESTON, SCOTT

05/19/2021

“If a defendant has to accept the benefit of a negotiated plea agreement via videoconferencing, has he lost a substantive right or been harmed?”