Legal Opinion
Odelugo, Aghaegbuna
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 17, 2014No. PD-1198-13PublishedCited by 60 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
in which KELLER, P.J., and WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, COCHRAN, and ALCALA, JJ., joined.
After pleading guilty to the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity on the advice of his retained trial counsel, the appellant filed a motion for new trial alleging a conflict of interest on counsel’s part. At the trial court’s hearing on the motion, trial counsel, accused of having misappropriated certain funds entrusted to him by his client, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse “to be a witness against himself.”1 In response, the appellant argued to the trial court that…
3Cases cited14 opinions
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Padilla v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Spevack v. KleinSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Broxton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995
- Charles v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
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4Cited by60 opinions
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- David Austin Price v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
- Ex parte RobertsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
- Juan Quintero v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
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