Houston v. State

OPINION

KIRSCH, Judge.

Alesha Houston (“Houston”) and Donna Gruzinsky (“Gruzinsky”) were each convicted in separate lower cause numbers of failure to ensure school attendance 1 as a Class B misdemeanor. In this consolidated appeal, Houston and Gruzinsky raise the following restated issues:

I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it admitted the referral and attendance records of Gruzinsky’s child into evidence at her trial under the business records exception to the hearsay rule; and

II. Whether Houston received effective assistance of counsel when her trial counsel failed to object…