In December 2014, a Houston man named Andrew Lee Williams struck and killed a 49-year-old mother and grandmother with his vehicle as she jogging along a street in Angelton, Brazoria County. He was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in May 2016…
Category: Homicide/Murder
2019
Category: Appeals | DWI | Homicide/Murder
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…
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…
2017
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…