Legal Opinion
DeGroot v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided August 3, 2000No. 13-99-362-CRPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice CHAVEZ.
On February 10, 1999, appellant John Albert DeGroot, a Canadian graduate student studying in Brownsville, was found guilty of assault under section 22.01(a)(1) of the Texas Penal Code for his attack on his live-in girlfriend, also of Canada. Appellant pleaded not guilty, and waived his right to a trial by jury. The court sentenced him to 12 months in jail, then suspended the sentence and placed him on community supervision for 18 months. Appellant claims that he was denied the right to defend himself pro se and seeks to reverse his conviction and sentence. This…
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