PD-0077-15

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TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS

OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

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STEVEN COLE,

Appellant

VS.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

Appellee

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Appealed from Gregg County

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APPELLANT’S POST SUBMISSION SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF

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EBB B. MOBLEY

State Bar # 14238000

Attorney at Law

422 North Center St.-Lower Level

P. O. Box 2309

Longview, TX 75606

Telephone: (903) 757-3331

Facsimile: (903) 753-8289

ebbmob@aol.com

ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT

PD-0077-15

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

AUSTIN, TEXAS

Transmitted 9/22/2015 11:50:35 AM

Accepted 9/22/2015 1:21:48 PM

ABEL ACOSTA

CLERK
PD-0077-15

STEVEN COLE,

Appellant

VS.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

Appellee

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SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF OF APPELLANT

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NOW comes STEVEN COLE, appellant, and files his post-submission list of

authority in response to questions from the Bench doing oral argument about

methamphetamine and its dissipation rate in the blood of a human being.

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The following cases address this issue: 

Haley v. State 396 S.W.3d 756 (Tex.App. - Houston (14th Dist.) 2013, no pet.)

Bradley v. State No. 10-07-00119-CR, 2008 Tex.App. LEXIS 7545, pet. ref’d 

United States v. Stephen C. Pond 36 M.J. 1050 (USAF, CMR 1993)

South Dakota v. Kyle Louise Buchholz 1999 S.D. 110 598 N.W.2d 899

Shaw v. Rosanne Campbell 2007 WL 2789556 (E.D. Cal.)

West v. Georgia 288 Ga.App. 566, 654 S.E.2d 463 (2007)

Clark v. People 2006 WL 773040 (Cal.App. 3 Dist.)

People v. Joey Villareal 2003 WL 21504493 (Cal.App. 6 Dist.)

People v. Manuel Alfred Rocha 221 Cal.App. 4th 1385, 165 Cal.Rptr.3d 190) (2013)

Gibson v. State 233 S.W.3d 447 (Tex.App. - Waco 2007 no pet.)

Flannigan v. State of Arizona 194 Ariz. 150, 978 P.2d 127 (1999)
 The following material provides in depth discussion of methamphetamine in

a criminal/forensic setting:

Kerrigan, Drug Toxicology for Prosecutors: Targeting the Hardcore Impaired

Drivers, 2004, American Prosecutors Research Institute.

Verstraete, Alain G., Detection Times of Drugs of Abuse in Blood, Urine, and

Oral Fluid, The Drug Monitor, Volume 26, Number 2, April 2004, Clinical Biology

Laboratory, Ghent University Hospital, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium, (2004) Lippincott

Williams & Wilkins.

Winek, Charles L., Winek’s Drug & Chemical Blood-Level Data 2001.

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The entire testing of Justin Schwane, the State’s expert toxicologist can be

found at 4 RR 6-28. He used the term “therapeutic” nine times in reference to the

level of methamphetamine in Appellant’s blood sample; viz, 4 RR 15 (twice); 4 RR

20 (twice); 4 RR 21, 4 RR 22 (twice); 4 RR 25, 4 RR 26.
PRAYER

Upon the issues presented, it is submitted that the opinion of the Court of 

Criminal Appeals should be affirmed. 

Respectfully submitted,

EBB B. MOBLEY

Attorney at Law

422 North Center St - Lower Level.

P. O. Box 2309

Longview, TX 75606

Telephone: (903) 757-3331

Facsimile: (903) 753-8289

ebbmob@aol.com

 /s/ Ebb B. Mobley 

EBB B. MOBLEY

State Bar # 14238000

ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE

I certify that this brief contains 530 words according to the computer program

used to prepare the document.

 /s/ Ebb B. Mobley 

 EBB B. MOBLEY

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

A copy of this brief was provided to John R. Messinger, Assistant State

Prosecuting Attorney, P.O. Box 13046, Austin, Texas 78711, and Zan Colson Brown,

Assistant District Attorney, 101 East Methvin, Suite 333, Longview, Texas 71601

on the 22nd day of September, 2015, by e-file.

 /s/ Ebb B. Mobley 

EBB B. MOBLEY