West 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 defense counsel’s advice that court would assess lower punishment and that defendant was eligible for deferred adjudication did not render defendant’s guilty plea unknowing or involuntary.
• “[T]he plea is not involuntary just because the sentence exceeded what appellant expected, even if the expectation was raised by his attorney.”
• ―[T]he plea is not involuntary just because the sentence exceeded what appellant expected, even if the expectation was raised by his attorney.‖
• “[T]he plea is not involuntary just because the sentence exceeded what appellant expected, even if the expectation was raised by his attorney”
• trial court was not divested of authority to consider deferred adjudication based on oral finding of guilt that was pronounced at plea hearing but not entered into judgment until after punishment hearing
• discussing different forms of probation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-19· cited 144×
• Crawford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1994-12-28· cited 64×
• Ex Parte Austin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-24· cited 63×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-06· cited 48×
• Enard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-01-05· cited 40×
• Powers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1987-06-10· cited 37×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-22· cited 31×
• Malley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2000-02-09· cited 30×
• Cabezas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 29×
• Derek Maurice Roots v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-12-19· cited 21×
• Stephens v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-03-23· cited 17×
• Fielder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-14· cited 14×
• Nigel Mohammed Hampton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-04-24· cited 8×
• Gutierrez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-12-13· cited 8×
• Domanski v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-11· cited 7×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-26· cited 7×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-19· cited 6×
• Culver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 5×
• Heiligmann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-08-19· cited 4×
• Cabezas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-26· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• McNew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-15· cited 264×
• Fred J. Wellnitz v. Ray H. Page, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary
  Tenth Circuit· 1970-01-26· cited 88×
• Ex Parte Kelly
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 43×
• State Ex Rel. Vance v. Hatten
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-28· cited 40×
• West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-04-25· cited 10×