Disclaimer: The legal authorities cited in these papers was current as of the date of their distribution or publication. Because the law is in a continuous state of change, attorneys should exercise due diligence by checking the currentness and completeness of governing legal authorities (i.e., Shepardizing and Keyciting) and applicable statewide and local rules of appellate procedure.
This paper was prepared as an overview of the Court of Criminal Appeals decisions from 2015 and presented at the 2016 Criminal Justice Conference.
This presentation was prepared by Stacey M. Soule for the 2016 Criminal Justice Conference. It gives an overview of the Court of Criminal Appeals decisions from the 2015 term.
A procedural explanation of the granting and processing of Petitions for Discretionary Review.
This paper addresses the top ten criminal cases from April of 2014 thru early April of 2015, evenly divided between U.S. Supreme Court opinions and Court of Criminal Appeals' opinions. Like beauty, the significance of judicial opinions is in the eye of the beholder.
This paper was prepared by Stacey M. Goldstein, Assistant State Prosecuting Attorney, for Judge Michael Keasler's 2014 Presentation: Appellate Ethics: Avoiding the Dreaded "Personal & Confidential" Envelope from the State Bar.
The appellate standard of review is the starting point of any legal analysis, as it defines the level of deference applied to the proceedings below. Neither trial court error nor sufficiency of the evidence can be addressed outside the parameters of the standard of review. The Federal Rules of A...
This paper is designed to provide trial judges with a step-by-step framework to effectively and efficiently manage an Article 11.07 post-conviction habeas corpus docket by examining: applicable procedural rules; burdens; the notion of cognizability; substantive issues like ineffective assistance ...
Over the past decade, the Court of Criminal Appeals has addressed numerous complex jury unanimity charge issues. To avoid charge error of this sort, it is important to be able to identify the tow areas where unanimity becomes an issue.
