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A Texas judge can give deferred-adjudication probation to a person pleading guilty unless:
(1) the defendant is charged with an offense:
(A) under Sections 49.04-49.08, Penal Code [DWI offenses]; or
(B) for which punishment may be increased under Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f), Health and Safety Code [Drug-Free Zone], if it is shown that the defendant has [...]
Mark Bennett | April 25, 2008
Can anyone tell me why, when Virginia v. Moore is irrelevant to Texas state cases, Texas’s Attorney General Greg Abbott wastes his time and taxpayers’ money filing an amicus brief in that case?
Mark Bennett | June 16, 2007
Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice informs us that, in the People’s Democratic Republic of New York, there is no right to expunction (only he calls it “expungement,” which, according to my OED, is “rare” — not that there’s anything wrong with that). So I presume that if you get arrested for something in New York, [...]
Mark Bennett | June 5, 2007
Gideon, following Doug Berman’s train of thought here, asks, Why don’t we have jury sentencing in non-capital criminal cases?
In Texas, we do have jury sentencing in non-capital cases. The accused can elect before trial to have the jury set punishment in the event of a conviction (and we get jury trials for everything). If the [...]
