Legal Opinion
State v. Garza
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided June 29, 1989No. 13-89-066-CRPublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NYE, Chief Justice.
The State appeals from an order granting the defendant’s motion for mistrial which was made after the jury returned a guilty verdict. We dismiss the appeal as moot.
To fully understand the State’s appeal, we summarize the pertinent events. The defendant was indicted for possessing cocaine. A jury found him guilty in November 1988. At this time, the trial court ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled the punishment hearing for January 6, 1989. On January 5, 1989, the parties appeared in court. The record shows that sometime before this hearing, the defendant…
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- United States v. Jerome Gatto, Virgil Redmond, Joseph Bonanno, Jr., and Salvatore BonannoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
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