EX PARTE KUSSMAUL

Nos. WR-28,586-09, WR-28,772-02, WR-35,508-03, WR-84,754-01.

548 S.W.3d 606 (2018)

EX PARTE Richard Bryan KUSSMAUL, Applicant. Ex parte James Edward Long, Applicant. Ex parte James Wayne Pitts, Jr., Applicant. Ex parte Michael DeWayne Shelton, Applicant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Delivered: June 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tiffany J. Dowling , Actual Innocence Clinic, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 727 East Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78705, KUSSMAUL ATTORNEYS FOR APPLICANT.

Sterling Harmon , Appellate Division Chief, 219 North 6th Street, Suite 200, Waco, Texas 76701, KUSSMAUL, PITTS and SHELTON ATTORNEYS FOR THE STATE, STACEY SOULE, STATE'S ATTORNEY, AUSTIN.

John J. McKetta, III , William Christian , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, 401 Congress Ave., Suite 2200, Austin, Texas 78701, LONG ATTORNEYS FOR APPLICANT.

Sterling Harmon , Appellate Division Chief, 219 North 6th Street, Suite 200, Waco, Texas 76701, LONG ATTORNEYS FOR THE STATE.

Ryan C. Myers , Jeffery B. Vaden , Bracewell LLP, 711 Louisiana Street, Suite 2300, Houston, Texas 77002, PITTS ATTORNEYS FOR APPLICANT.


Applicants James Edward Long, James Wayne Pitts, Jr., and Michael DeWayne Shelton pleaded guilty to the offense of sexual assault and testified against Applicant Richard Bryan Kussmaul at his capital murder trial. Long, Pitts, and Shelton all testified at trial that they and Kussmaul had...

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