Huerta v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming where trial counsel failed to object to the details of a prior conviction and possible gang affiliation used for impeachment
• defendant’s prior convictions in 2005 and 2006 were “near in time to the charged offense” and favored admissibility when the charged offense was committed in 2009
• A defense attorney may choose to elicit testimony from the accused as to his prior conviction to remove the sting from an attack that would otherwise come from the State.
• Counsel may refrain from objecting to prejudicial evidence in an effort to make appellant appear more honest, to minimize the seriousness of the earlier offense, or to avoid drawing unwanted attention to a particular issue.
• “Theft is a crime of moral turpitude involving elements of deception.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Donald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-27· cited 40×
• Lionell Dewayne West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-20· cited 27×
• Ferreira v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-29· cited 24×
• Leroy Dewain McCook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-04-04· cited 12×
• Martin Vasquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-11-19· cited 6×
• Parmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-03-23· cited 4×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-03-23· cited 2×
• Johnathan Leedel Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-09-25
• Lorenzo Dwayne Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-02-26
• Walter Hinton, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-04-17
• Erik Medrano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-01-09
• Kevin Rahe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-02-05
• Jason Harrison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-12-06
• Sharard Lavann Chavis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-12-04
• Derrick Deshawn Bryant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-11-01
• Dung Quoc Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-07-12
• Damon Deshon Miles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-06-21
• Omar Alvarenga v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-05
• Donovan Darren Levoy Meadows v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-04-30
• Enriquez, Fernando v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-03-13

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-13· cited 6,146×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 3,060×
• Bone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-19· cited 2,687×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-01· cited 2,561×
• Goodspeed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-04-06· cited 1,864×
• Patrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 1,680×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-03· cited 1,670×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 1,003×
• Mata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-06· cited 849×
• Robertson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-03-22· cited 724×
• Theus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-02· cited 456×
• Mays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-03· cited 209×
• Bingham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-21· cited 153×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-17· cited 139×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-10· cited 135×
• Stone v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-04-13· cited 131×
• LaHood v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-08-09· cited 120×
• Denman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-07-26· cited 99×
• Anderson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-02-09· cited 72×

Other cases named Huerta v. State

11 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Huerta v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-05-26· cited 29×
• Huerta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1996-09-25· cited 23×
• Huerta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1982-10-06· cited 7×
• Huerta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-17· cited 3×
• Huerta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-10-04· cited 1×
• Huerta v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-12-04· cited 1×
• Huerta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2007-02-16
• Huerta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-19
• Huerta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-19
• Huerta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-05-29
• Huerta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-05-29