Case James Michael Sotelo v. the State of Texas Court Texas 1st Court of Appeals Judge Susanna Dokupil (elected 2024) […]
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Case Jacob Daniel Pullen v. The State of Texas Court Texas Court of Appeals, Fourth District Judge Adrian A. Spears
The Texas Court of Appeals, Tenth District, affirmed summary judgment for the defendant in a malicious prosecution suit, holding that an eyewitness account received before the police report was filed conclusively established probable cause and negated malice, and that the plaintiff’s evidence of a contentious family relationship failed to raise a fact issue because it did not address the objective reasonableness of the defendant’s belief at the time of the report.
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Case Nathaniel Turner v. The State of Texas Court Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District of Texas (Fort Worth) Judge
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The Seventh Court of Appeals affirmed a fifteen-year conviction for aggravated assault on a public servant, holding that threats relayed through crisis negotiators to officers on scene satisfy the statute, and that felony deadly conduct is not a lesser-included offense of aggravated assault by threat where the indictment charges only exhibiting — not discharging — a weapon. The court modified the judgment to delete an attorney’s fees provision entered without the required finding of financial resources.
The Eighth Court of Appeals affirmed denial of a second post-conviction DNA testing motion in a capital murder case, holding that Chapter 64 does not permit comparison of a DNA specimen to a specific named individual, and that third-party DNA on the murder weapon is not exculpatory where the defendant was convicted under a law-of-parties theory and substantial evidence of guilt exists independent of the DNA.
The Seventh Court of Appeals affirmed convictions after holding that a defendant who refuses a court-ordered sanity evaluation waives any right to such an evaluation and cannot complain on appeal of its denial, and that a December 2022 incompetency finding was legally irrelevant to the separate question of the defendant’s sanity at the time of the offenses.