Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana

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• recognizing that felony murder is “an unintentional murder committed in the course of committing a felony”
• concluding that the jury could not have reasonably inferred acts “where there was no evidence of any such acts”
• holding that while a jury is allowed to draw reasonable inferences, it cannot simply speculate or theorize about the possible meaning of the evidence (citing Hooper, 214 S.W.3d at 15)
• finding no “act” in the starvation of a child, reversing a felony murder conviction, and reforming the judgment to reflect a conviction for injury to a child

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Cited by

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

• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-10· cited 28×
• Fraser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-09· cited 15×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-05-04· cited 14×
• Hudson, Cynthia Ann
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-10· cited 9×
• Dewan Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-28· cited 6×
• Avellaneda v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-16· cited 5×
• Bocanegra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-02-16· cited 4×
• Noriega, Arturo
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-02-26
• Adams, Karen Ladell
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-19
• Dustin Ryan Rhoades v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2015-09-15
• Rhoades, Dustin Ryan
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-12-01
• Rhoades, Dustin Ryan
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-17
• Anthony Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2017-07-21
• People v. Drew
  California Court of Appeal· 2017-08-29
• Efrain Leonel Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2019-07-31
• Violet Maree Walter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2019-08-30
• State v. Cheeks
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2019-10-01
• Colby Ray Williamson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-10-02
• Catlin Wayne Briscoe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-11-19
• Marian Fraser v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2019-12-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 5,494×
• Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-28· cited 1,123×
• Contreras v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-09· cited 123×
• Villanueva v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 119×
• Bowen, Deborah
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-20· cited 111×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-27· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Cottam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-17· cited 93×
• Fairchild v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2000-05-11· cited 72×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-07-28· cited 22×
• Dennis Ray Driver v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-06-09· cited 19×
• Nilda Iliana Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-07-31· cited 9×

Other cases named Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18
• Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18
• Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18
• Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-25