Gregory Carl Green v. State

Reversed and Rendered and Plurality and Concurring Opinions filed August 12, 2011.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

NO. 14-09-00338-CR

Gregory Carl Green, Appellant

v.

The State of Texas, Appellee

On Appeal from the 40th District Court

Ellis County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 32,870-CR

CONCURRING OPINION

I respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleagues’ descriptions of the Court of Criminal Appeals’s decision in Brooks v. State. See 323 S.W.3d 893, 894–912 (Tex. Crim. App. 2010) (plurality op.); id., 323 S.W.3d at 912–26 (Cochran, J., concurring). I write separately to address this important…