Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Defendant's indecency with a child sentence is vacated where the trial court lacked discretion to impose jail time as a condition of community supervision immediately after he heard unsworn, un-crossexamined victim-allocution statements that they wanted Defendant to go to jail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2009
• Published 06/17/2009

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher M. Gunter, Austin, for Appellant., Cheryl Nelson, Asst. District Atty., LLano, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, State's Atty., Austin, for State.