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PD-0077-15 COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS Transmitted 9/22/2015 11:50:35 AM PD-0077-15 Accepted 9/22/2015 1:21:48 PM September 23, 2015 ABEL ACOSTA CLERK **************
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 **********
Appealed from Gregg County
__________________________________________________________________ APPELLANT’S POST SUBMISSION SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF __________________________________________________________________
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
STEVEN COLE, Appellant VS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF OF APPELLANT _________________________________________________________________
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. § 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. §
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
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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