NIXON, BRIAN DALE v. the State of Texas

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-0556-23 BRIAN DALE NIXON, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS MEDINA COUNTY WALKER, J., filed a dissenting opinion. DISSENTING OPINION This is the Medina County Jail. It boldly declares to all the world—in big letters on the front of the building right above the door—that it is a “JAIL”: 2 3 It is not a courthouse that happens to have jail facilities inside of it. Nor is it a structure in which a courtroom shares “the same building where the jail and the sheriff’s…