Lee Barfield v. State

MERCIER, Judge.

We granted the application for discretionary appeal in this case to review the evidence supporting the trial court’s decision to revoke Lee Barfield’s probation. Because the evidence did not support the trial court’s judgment, even under the more lenient standard applicable to a probation revocation, we reverse.

In 1999, Barfield pled guilty to two counts of burglary, statutory rape, and robbery by force. He was sentenced to twenty years, with six to serve in confinement, and the final fourteen years to be served on probation. In 2013 the State filed a petition to revoke his…