Court Opinion

ID: 9755436
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:38:28.637787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:07.543663
License: Public Domain

MEYERS, J.,
concurs with note.
I join the opinion of the Court, but would take the additional step of overruling Stasey v. State, 683 S.W.2d 705 (Tex. Crim.App.1985). While I agree with the Court that Stasey contains broad language consistent with precedent, our ultimate holding there is inconsistent with our decisions in the parole context and with the rationale of Stasey itself. In my view, the result reached in Presiding Judge Onion’s dissent in Stasey is more consistent with Stasey’s rationale and the analogous parole settings. Presiding Judge Onion would have held applicant was “entitled to credit for the time he was at liberty on probation.” Stasey, 683 S.W.2d at 711 (Onion, P.J., dissenting). I would go further than the Court today and overrule Stasey.