Riley v. State

OPINION

NUCHIA, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of retaliation, and the trial court sentenced him to 25 years in prison. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

Appellant is a prison inmate at the Ellis I unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division (TDCJ-ID). As he walked past the prison’s central control desk one afternoon, a guard ordered him to halt and return to the desk. Appellant refused and continued down the corridor. Unable to leave his post at the desk, the central control guard enlisted the help of another guard, Officer Freeman, to secure appellant’s compliance with…