SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED IN DISTRICT COURT

  

Six people pled guilty in District Court this week and were sentenced by Judge Carson Campbell.

Walter Louis Charles, 36 of Brenham was sentenced to 10 years in prison for evading arrest with a previous conviction.

Eduardo Alexander Ascencio-Sandoval, 20 of Brenham was sentenced to 4 years in prison for Sexual Assault of a Child.

Roland Okeith Branch, 35 of Brenham was sentenced to 120 days in County Jail for Possession of a Controlled Substance.

Graciano Gonzalez, 29 of Brenham was sentenced to 4 years deferred adjudication probation for assault of a family member by impeding breath.  He was also ordered to pay a $750 fine, perform 100 hours of community service and have no contact with the victim.

Brittney Eugina Whitley, 34 of Austin was sentenced to 5 years’ probation for tampering with physical evidence and possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility.

Cebrina Midkiff, 28 of Brenham was granted shock probation and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for possession of a controlled substance.  She was sentenced to 4 years in prison after a sentencing hearing in August of last year.  The court approved her motion for shock probation and ordered her released from prison.  She was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

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  1. Sadly in my opinion in the State of Texas a Judge can overrule a jury’s decision. This could mean a lot of different things to me! Example: maybe the Jury has not been given all the facts so their decision was not a proper one? The Jury is paid a small fee for their being on jury duty however if the jury can be overruled by the Judge why would the jury be called in the first place?

    In my opinion we all need to be aware that a Judge was an attorney before he became a judge. Also while an attorney can be a Judge after the Judge is no longer a Judge he is still an attorney!

    1. Jurors are in fact paid a small sum for their service, but there was no jury involved in any of the above, so I don’t understand any of the rest of that paragraph. The article says all those folks pled guilty in exchange for an agreed sentence. Only in the last one does it seem the judge exercised any discretion.

      The law requires that District Judges be attorneys, logically. Again, it’s difficult to follow the rest of that paragraph.

      1. Nowhere in the article does it specifically say in plain English that defendants pled guilty “in exchange for an agreed sentence.” Perhaps some phrase in the article has some legal meaning that is not apparent to laymen, but it certainly doesn’t include the customary phrase, ‘plea deal.’

    1. Texas Penal Code Sec. 12.44. REDUCTION OF STATE JAIL FELONY PUNISHMENT TO MISDEMEANOR PUNISHMENT. (a) A court may punish a defendant who is convicted of a state jail felony by imposing the confinement permissible as punishment for a Class A misdemeanor if, after considering the gravity and circumstances of the felony committed and the history, character, and rehabilitative needs of the defendant, the court finds that such punishment would best serve the ends of justice.

  2. Wow, only 4 years for Sexual Assault of a Child!!! Then, a guy gets 10 years for evading arrest. Just doesn’t seem right. What has happened to our court system?

    1. We don’t know the circumstances behind either case other than the person getting 10 years for evading arrest had a previous conviction. The judge or jury that passed down a 4 year sentence for sexual assault of a child obviously felt that the facts of the case warranted that punishment.

          1. They got a bunch of different levels of felony now, and not all of them warrant state time. At least that’s how a county judge explained it.

          1. Just guessing but I doubt any of these actually had a jury, they are most likely plea deals, jury’s would typically take a harsher view in sentencing.

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