Manuel Espino-Cruz v. State

Affirmed and Majority Opinion and Dissenting Opinion filed September 24, 2019. In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. 14-18-00504-CR MANUEL ESPINO-CRUZ, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 232nd District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 1531630 DISSENTING OPINION The instant case lacks (1) the necessary “affirmative links” between Appellant and the drugs, and (2) sufficiently just reasons to authorize our courts to convict Appellant for merely being within some unidentified proximity to contraband. I am therefore obliged to dissent from the majority’s…