Legal Opinion
State v. Balderas
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided January 18, 1996No. 01-95-00486-CRPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TAFT, Justice.
Appellee, Juan Jose Balderas, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The jury assessed punishment at 40-years confinement. Appellee moved for a new trial, and the trial court granted the motion. The State appeals.
We vacate and remand.
Summary of Facts
Appellee went to the Hempstead Police Department and made a voluntary confession. Appellee stated that the reason he was confessing was because his common-law wife, Mary Contreras, told him that her mother, Agnes Herrera Figueroa, and Contreras’s 13-year-old daughter, A.C., were probably going to file a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Sharp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
- Cantu v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
- Butler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1989
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Ryan v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1996
- State v. Boyd, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2006
- Ricketts v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2002
- Alexander v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2009
- Harris v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2000
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