George Edward Wilson v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• permitting use in penalty phase of trial of uncounseled misdemeanor conviction that did not result in imprisonment
• a prior uncounseled misdemeanor conviction cannot be used under a sentence enhancement statute to convert a subsequent misdemeanor into a felony with a prison term
• a prior uncounseled misdemeanor convic tion cannot be used under a sentence enhancement statute to convert a subsequent misdemeanor into a felony with a prison term
• Baldasar held only \that a prior uncounseled misdemeanor conviction may not be used under an enhanced penalty statute to convert a subsequent misdemeanor into a felony with a prison term.\
• Baldosar held only “that a prior un-counseled misdemeanor conviction may not be used under an enhanced penalty statute to convert a subsequent misdemeanor into a felony with a prison term.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).