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Dansby, Michael Edward Sr.

Citations

  • 398 S.W.3d 233
  • 2013 WL 1890726
  • 2013 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 744

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  • holding that the State could not revoke the probationer’s community supervision based on his assertion of Fifth Amendment rights in response to a request to take a polygraph
  • holding trial court abused its discretion by revoking defendant’s community supervision based upon defendant’s invocation of his Fifth Amendment right
  • stating that Dansby invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions about other possible crimes
  • “We have long held that an abuse-of-discretion standard applies when reviewing a trial judge’s revocation of probation.”
  • community supervision officer would have refused to dismiss motion to revoke if appellant had reentered the treatment program without submitting to the sexual-history polygraph “because the State requires it in all of the programs”
  • “It is well settled that the Fifth Amendment insulates probationers from compelled self-incrimination”; explaining that the State may validly insist on compelled incriminating answers if it first grants use immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Price, Meyers, Womack, Johnson, Cochran, Alcala, Keasler, Keller, Hervey

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