State v. Jones

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Appellee Christopher Jones was convicted of the aggravated assault and kidnapping of Cindy Hurst, the former girlfriend of Jones, and the kidnappings of Hurst’s daughters, six-year-old Brianna and eighteen-month-old Ja-Nya. On motion for new trial the trial court upheld appellee’s aggravated assault conviction but granted appellee a new trial on the three kidnapping convictions on the basis that appellee received ineffective assistance of counsel. Notwithstanding its grant of a new trial on the kidnapping charges, the trial court also found that the mandatory…