Gonzalez v. State

OPINION

MAY, Judge.

Gabino Gonzalez drove his pickup truck into a school bus while intoxicated. A jury found him guilty of criminal mischief and operating while intoxicated. Before his trial, while he was attempting to negotiate a guilty plea, Gonzalez wrote a letter to the school corporation in which he apologized for the accident and admitted he had been drinking that day. The trial court allowed the State to enter that letter into evidence. 1 Gonzalez argues on appeal that was error because the letter was hearsay and because a letter written as part of guilty plea negotiations is…