In the early morning hours on Christmas Eve, 2014, there was a horrific car accident in El Paso, Texas. According to news reports, local police believed that Joel Garcia was both intoxicated and speeding when he ran a red light…
Category: Homicide/Murder
Oct.14
2018
2018
On average, 94 percent of all state felony convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Texas most assuredly falls within this range.
On January 12, 2012, Sandra Coy Briggs entered a plea of no contest to intoxication manslaughter of…
Mar.16
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Homicide/Murder
A decision to plead guilty is a difficult one, especially when a criminal defendant is facing a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court in Kercheval v. United States said that “a plea of…