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Gilley, Brian Shawn

Citations

  • 418 S.W.3d 114
  • 2014 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 3
  • 2014 WL 128009

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the right to counsel at a critical stage of the criminal proceedings must be affirmatively waived and cannot be forfeited by inaction alone
  • holding that the competency of a witness is a question for the trial court to determine under Rule 104(a) of the Texas Rules of Evidence before the witness testifies
  • indicating that right to counsel at critical stage of proceedings can be affirmatively waived
  • stating that the trial court itself must make an independent ruling on competency
  • discussing constitutional right to counsel that “extends to all critical stages of the criminal proceeding, not just the actual trial”
  • remanding good faith exception question because “our resolution of the issue . . . would benefit from a carefully wrought decision from the court of appeals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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Cites

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