Preliminary Sections

• Author: Mark G. Daniel/Robert K. Gill
• Pages: 1-60

HIGHLIGHTS

This new edition of Texas Criminal Lawyer’s Handbook will keep you on the cutting edge of Texas

criminal law, practice and procedure, with new and updated coverage of a broad range of issues, including:

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

• Reasonable expectation of privacy in:

• The record of one’s physical movements as captured by cell phone service providers through cell site

location information (CSLI) data gathering

• A rental car

• A vehicle parked within the curtilage of one’s home

• Investigatory stops

• Grounds for extending the stop

• Permissible questioning of the driver and occupants

RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL

• Which decisions are reserved for the client and which decisions are the trial lawyer’s province

• Defendant’s burden in establishing violation of his right to effective assistance of counsel

• Failure to properly advise on a guilty plea that causes defendant to automatically lose legal immigration

status and become removable

PRETRIAL MOTIONS

• Challenges to charging Instruments: unconstitutional; overbroad; vague

• Conditional guilty pleas: appeal following plea; deferred sentencing

JURY SELECTION AND VOIR DIRE

• Standard for determining whether withholding of information by a venire-member constitutes grounds for

reversal

• Two instances in which a trial may proceed with eleven jurors

EVIDENTIARY AND TRIAL ISSUES

• Burdens of proof re: admissibility of scientific and non-scientific evidence

• How to authenticate a video

• Remedy for unlawful or unconstitutional wiretap

• When a spoliation instruction is warranted

PUNISHMENT PHASE

• Burden of proving enhancement allegations

• Appeal of probation; probation revocation; shock probation

POST-TRIAL ISSUES

• Exceptions to the statutory prohibition against a subsequent habeas application after the final disposition

of an initial writ application challenging a conviction

And More!

TEXAS CRIMINAL LAWYER’S HANDBOOK

BY ROBERT K. GILL

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