Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

When the trial court fails to admonish a defendant about the immigration consequences of his guilty plea, a silent record on citizenship, or a record that is insufficient to determine citizenship, establishes harm by the standard of Rule of Appellate Procedure 44.2(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2007
• Published 06/27/2007

Judges

• WOMACK, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John H. Hagler, Dallas, for Appellant., Amy Sue Melo Murphy, Assistant District Atty., Dallas, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.