Court Opinion

ID: 9682853
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:18:33.338678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:42.616968
License: Public Domain

FULLER, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the result only, and I would limit my concurrence to the fact that it cannot be concluded from the circumstances and facts presented that the misconduct was sufficiently proven or was of such a nature to constitute prosecutorial overreaching sufficient to bar Appellant’s retrial.
However, I feel that the district attorney’s office should not be let off by merely stating that prosecutors should answer for violations of the Disciplinary Rules of the State Bar of Texas under Canon 3(B)(3). General apathy exists by members of local and state bar when matters considering criminal law are concerned, and, of course, this does not provide any relief for a defendant when he has been abused or wronged by overreaching conduct by prosecutors. The conduct of the two assistant district attorneys in this case, especially the one with over eleven years’ of prosecutorial experience, was shameful. Fortunately, it is not representative of all prosecutors.