(1) “Did the court of appeals ignore this Court’s confession and avoidance precedent set out in Juarez v. State?” (2) “Does a Defendant need to know what ‘operating’ a vehicle means in order to satisfactorily admit to ‘operating’ a vehicle?”
1. “Does a single clarifying question by a police officer in response to a defendant’s spontaneous, voluntary statement constitute custodial interrogation for the purposes of Miranda?” 2. “Even if the answer to the officer’s question was inadmissible, the court of appeals erred in factoring admis...
“Did the Legislature intend punishments for both continuous sexual abuse, Tex. Penal Code § 21.02, and prohibited sexual conduct, Tex. Penal Code § 25.02, against the same child?”
“The Court of Appeals erred by finding: …(ii) that the trial court did not err by refusing to permit Petitioner to withdraw his jury waiver.”
(1) “Under the Drug Free Zone statute, is an area with play equipment presumed to be ‘open to the public’ freeing the State from having to produce legally sufficient evidence at trial?” (2) “Did the 13th Court of Appeals err by improperly analyzing the record for legally sufficient evidence prov...
1. “The Fourteenth Court erred by applying the constitutional harm standard to unobjected-to charge error.” 2. “Alternatively, the Fourteenth Court erred by concluding that a punishment-phase objection preserved error in the guilt-phase charge.” 3. “The Fourteenth Court erred by finding reversibl...
1. “Did the Court of Appeals err when it conducted a purely de novo review of the trial court’s denial of a motion for mistrial for an alleged Brady violation, a ruling which is traditionally reviewed for an abuse of discretion?” 2. “In concluding that the non-disclosed evidence in this case was ...
1. “The judge, on an at best, partially developed record, required one spectator to view one witness’s testimony contemporaneously from a neighboring room. Is this the sort of closure requiring reversal contemplated by the right to a public trial[?]” 2. “Did the Fourth Court of Appeals fail to ad...
denotes a petition filled by SPA