Today's Opinions - 4/22/09

The Court handed down published opinions in the following cases:

AP-75,352, Christopher Anthony Young v. State: The CCA affirmed Young's capital murder conviction and rejected his fifteen points of error covering such interesting topics as Batson, motions to suppress, and the mitigation special issue. Click here for a more detailed summary.

PD-0670-07, Clark Dewayne Mays v. State: The CCA held that Mays failed to preserve error regarding the trial court's blanket exclusion of his "diminished capacity" evidence. Though he introduced his slides from voir dire, these slides were not a sufficient offer of proof to give the court of appeals enough information to know what was excluded. Click here for a more detailed summary.

PD-1540-07, Garland Jerome Vennus v. State: The CCA held that defense counsel's evidence based objections in a motion to suppress hearing where the rules of evidence don't apply invited the error of the trial court denying his motion to suppress even though the State failed to provide a justification for the arrest. Click here for a more detailed summary.

PD-0608-08, Emily Hardy and Hiram K. Myers v. State: The CCA held that camping on the side of the road is legally insufficient to establish a potential obstruction of a roadway. Click here for a summary chock full of useless detail.

PD-0822-08, Nikolai Ivanov Karenev v. State: The CCA held that Karenev's failure to raise a facial challenge to the harassment statute in the trial court or on appeal failed to preserve error. Click here for a more detailed summary.