Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A pre-sentence investigation (PSI) report does not necessarily have to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is responsible for extraneous misconduct before a court may consider it in assessing punishment. However, the PSI must provide the trial court with some basis from which it can rationally infer that the defendant was responsible before using it to inform its normative judgment of what punishment to assess within the statutorily prescribed range.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William F. Carter, Bryan, for Appellant., Lisa C. McMinn, Assistant State's Atty., Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.