Legal Opinion

Rodriguez, Ronald Rudolph

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 5, 2019No. PD-0032-19Published

1Opinion of the Court

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-0032-19 RONALD RUDOLPH RODRIGUEZ, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE THIRD COURT OF APPEALS COMAL COUNTY Y EARY, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which S LAUGHTER, J., joined. DISSENTING OPINION I dissent to the Court’s failure to grant discretionary review in this case. It represents another incarnation of an issue I have been urging the Court to tackle for some time now, to no avail. The Third Court of Appeals held that the use of a prior felony conviction to enhance Appellant’s sentence was…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  2. Studer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
  3. Flowers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
  4. Sledge v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. Mizell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2003

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