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Mr. Abel Acosta, Clerk COSHKCH@HR
Court Of Criminal‘Appeals
P.O. BOX 12308

Capitol Station

Austin, TX 78711

Mr. Acosta:

Please find the enclosed Motion For Evidentiary Hearing in Cause
No. WR-79,976-05, Ex parte Honish.

l would ask that you please file this Motion with the Court. l
thank you for your assistance and consideration in this matter.

Respectfully submitted,

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Mar F. Honish

TDCJ# 1745461

Estelle Unit

264 FM 3478
Huntsville, TX 77320

 

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IN THE COURT OF
CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS

EX PARTE

MARK F. HONISH WR-79,976-05

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MOTION FOR EVIDENIIARY HEARING

COMES NOW MARK F. HONISH, Movant pro se, and moves this Court
to hold an evidentiary hearing regarding his Article 11.07 habeas
corpus application before the Court, and would show in support
thereof, the following facts.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Movantls 11.07 application was received by this Court on Oct-
ober 16, 2015, after the trial court adopted the Stateis Conclusi-
ons of Law on October 14, 2015. Movant asks the Court to grant an
evidentiary hearing to expand the record in regard to movant'S
claims of the State using perjured testimony to convict, prosecu-
torial misconduct, and ineffective assisatnce of trial and appell-
ate counsel. The State{s factual determinations and Conclusions
of Law are not supported within the record, and the fact finding
procedures of the trial court were not adequate to afford a full
and fair hearing of movant's claims.

GROUNDS IN SUPPORT OF EVIDENTIARY HEARING

Ground Two of 11.07 Application: The prosecution knowingly
used perjured testimony to obtain a conviction. The record on this
claim is clear. A comparison of the bond hearing testimony of Au-
gust 8, 2009, and the suppression hearing and trial testimony in
August of 2011 of Texas Ranger Murphree and Flower Mound Detective

Sullivan, show material portions of their suppression and trial

testimony to be perjured. A comparison of the Reporter's Record

at 2 RR:75 to 4 RR:42-48;119; for Ranger Murphree, and 2 RR:44-47

to 4 RR:131-133 for Detective Sullivan, prove this claim is factual,
and part of the record.

Both officers give completely different versions of their
Search and seizure activities, and investigative actions in their
2011 sworn testimony, that is exactly the opposite of their 2009
Sworn testimony. The perjured testimony is material as it directly
involves the officers search and seizure activities raised at su-
ppression, and it was repeated at trial to establish essential el-
ements of the offense. The perjured testimony goes directly to
the credibility of these officers with the jury and the court.
These officers were members of the prosecution team, making their
perjured testimony even more egregious, and it is imputed to the
prosecution. Ex parte Castellano,863 SW 2d 476(Tx.Cr.App.1993);
Giglio v. U.S:;éOS U.S. 150(1972).

The trial court concluded that movant did not show that the
perjured testimony was material, or that it caused harm. Both,
materiality, and harm were shown and argued in movantls 11.07 Brief
In SUPPOrt- The fact that the trial court did not even consider
Ordering affidavits from these officers, in light of their docu-L
mented perjury, supports movant:s argument that the trial court was
unreasonable in reaching its Conclusion, and that its fact finding
procedures on this claim were not merely inadequate, but non-exis-
tent. Movant therefore requests an evidentiary hearing to compel
these officers to explain their perjured testimony. ln the altern-
ative, movant would ask this Court to order the named officers to

provide the court affidavits addressing the perjury allegations.

Ground Five of 11.07 Application: Movantis right to due pro-

cess and a fair trial were violated by the prosecutoris willful
misconduct. The prosecutor knowingly used perjured testimony by
members of his prosecution team, and failed to correct testimony
he knew to be false. The prosecutor coerced State's witness Char-
lene Elmore to change her testimony from a written statement she
gave to police regarding two vehicles she had seen at the crime
scene on the night movant's brother was murdered. The prosecutor
showed Elmore a picture of movant's truck the day before her test-
imony, and coerced her to describe movant's truck, not the truck
she described in her written statement to police, which was ex-
culpatory for movant. Elmore also states the prosecutor talked to
her about how she was confused about what she had seen and descri-
bed in her written statement to police. (8 RR:21-44) The prosecu-
tion was implicit in the Stateis intentionally and in bad faith,
failing to preserve material, exculpatory evidence, when it re-
leased movant's truck without the required authorization from the
court, only 5 days after it was seized. The State used evidence
from the truck extensively at trial, but denied defense access to
this material evidence by its intentional release and destruction.
The trial court concluded that movant's mere assertions do
not show prosecutorial misconduct. Movant provided ample evidence
of these claims in his Brief by showing where the misconduct is
documented in the record, and how it harmed him. The trial court's
Conclusions in the face of documented, and blatant misconduct by
the prosecutor are unreasonable in light of the facts shown in the
record, and show the courtis fact finding procedures to be inade-

quate at best. Movant asks for an evidentiary hearing to expand

the record on his prosecutorial misconduct claims, and to have the
prosecutor held accountable for his unlawful actions.

Grounds Seven and Eight of 11.07 Application: Movant raises
ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel in these
grounds. Movant's Brief fully documents each claim and cites the
applicable portions of the record where available. Movant argues
and shows the harm of counselis deficient performance in each claim,
and meets both prongs of Strickland in doing so.

The trial court finds that "applicant's mere assertions are
not sufficient proof of his claims," and that he has not shown pre-
judice caused him by these claims. This Conclusion by the court is
unreasonable in light of argument and evidence presented in movant's
Brief. The courtis Conclusion is not supported by anything other
than the mere assertions provided to it by the State. The State
did not read movant's brief before filing its proposed Conclusions
with the court, and the trial court did not bother to request aff-
idavits from counsel to address these claims. The trial courtis
Conclusions are unreasonable, and an evidentiary hearing is needed
to address these claims, or in the alternative, movant would ask
this Court to order trial and appellate counsel to file affidavits
addressing movant's ineffective assistance of counsel claims.

d PRAYER

For the foregoing reasons, movant prays this Court grant an
evidentiary hearing to hear evidence and expand the record, or in
the alternative, order affidavits to be filed by the named police
officers, and trial and appellate counsel.

Respectfully submitted,

17 eli 91 pth

Mark F. Honish, pro se