Jefferson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant’s due process rights were violated where judge expressly promised to impose the maximum sentence and judge’s later statements during adjudication hearing confirmed his assessment of that promised punishment
• providing that judge’s statements were made after hearing all of the evidence
• noting that, by following through on promise of a certain punishment if defendant violates conditions of community service, the trial court (1) effectively excludes evidence relevant to punishment, (2) precludes the court from considering the full punishment range prescribed by law, and (3
• due process violation where trial court imposed predetermined punishment after promising defendant at deferred-adjudication plea that he would receive maximum sentence if he violated probation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brumit v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-14· cited 426×
• Ex Parte Brown
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-12· cited 186×
• Fimberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1996-04-11· cited 141×
• Earley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-06-30· cited 124×
• Buerger v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-11-01· cited 120×
• Gaal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-02· cited 105×
• Fluellen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-06-05· cited 81×
• Cole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1995-05-30· cited 57×
• Howard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1992-05-13· cited 51×
• Eddie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-06-11· cited 44×
• Burke v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-08-29· cited 38×
• Augustin Gabriel Cabrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-10-11· cited 17×
• Hull v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-10-12· cited 16×
• Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-02-10· cited 16×
• Diamond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-25· cited 14×
• Gonzales v. Johnson
  N.D. Texas· 1997-11-21· cited 13×
• East v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-01-30· cited 12×
• Watson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-08-18· cited 12×
• Vick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-10-21· cited 6×
• Keunte Dmon Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2015-07-01

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• McClenan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-12-07· cited 216×
• Fielding v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-09-10· cited 109×
• Paprskar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-07· cited 93×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-08-30· cited 59×