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This lady got sent to prison for 35 years by a Wise County jury for dope. The Fort Worth Court Of Appeals reversed the case because of an allegedly faulty instruction to the jury.
I wrote about the decision and said this: "This case may go further up the appellate chain. I think the big issue is whether there is a factual dispute about whether the officer was reasonable in thinking she was lying." If there were no "factual dispute", the judge's instructions to the jury were proper.
Moments ago, the highest criminal court in Texas reversed the court of appeals and reinstated the 35 year sentence. The reason? The evidence "fails to raise a fact issue."
