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  • In the Matter of JJ

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Family Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Landau
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    Case Number: 01-19-00712-CV

    A criminal defendant, who was assessed a twenty-year determinate sentence for capital murder, successfully had the matter reversed on appeal.

  • Ex Parte Sanchez

    Publication Date: 2020-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
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    Case Number: 01-18-00139-CR

    In a dissenting opinion on en banc reconsideration, Justice Keyes evaluated a post-conviction habeas corpus case where appellant asserted ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • Ramjattansingh v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Landau
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    Case Number: 01-15-01089-CR

    Appellant challenged his conviction for a Class A misdemeanor of DWI, arguing that the trial court erred by (1) denying his requests for jury instructions on unlawful arrests and custodial interrogation; (2) refusing to allow his counsel to present jury argument on the unlawfulness of the arrest; and (3) admitting an audio recording of the call for emergency assistance from a tow truck driver who observed appellant driving erratically on the night of his arrest as violative of the Confrontation Clause.

  • Garcia v. Ruiz

    Publication Date: 2019-06-24
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Landau
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    Case Number: 01-17-00969-CV

    Garcia and Ruiz married in 2000. Fifteen years later, Garcia filed for divorce on the ground that the marriage had become insupportable.

  • In The Interest Of JGS

    Publication Date: 2019-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Landau
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    Case Number: 01-18-00844-CV

    Rita Ann Sims, the grandmother of J.G.S., had been the sole managing conservator of J.G.S and she petitioned to terminate the parental rights of her son, Paul Cooper, the biological father of J.G.S., and the mother in order to adopt the child.