Denzel v. State

DAVID, Justice.

Douglas Denzel is a fifty-eight-year-old man. Psychiatric reports reveal that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

In July 2008, the State charged Denzel with Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement and Class B misdemeanor public intoxication. The State alleged that police officers responded to a complaint that Denzel had refused repeated requests to leave a bar. According to the probable cause affidavit, the officers then also asked Denzel to leave, but he would not. Denzel allegedly had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and a wobbly gait, and when an officer attempted…