Defendants who enter pleas without an agreement got a windfall from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which gutted a longstanding rule that waived the right to appeal most error in such cases. The court rejected the Helms Rule, which held that a knowing and voluntary guilty plea waived all nonjurisdictional error on appeal. "The Helms doctrine is as dead as Miles Davis," says Houston criminal-defense lawyer Brian Wice, who argued the appeal for the defendant.
January 20, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Defendants who enter pleas without an agreement got a windfall from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which gutted a longstanding rule that waived the right to appeal most error in such cases.
In Young v. State, the court in a 6-3 decision on Jan. 5 rejected the Helms Rule, named for its 1972 ruling in Helms v. State, which held that a knowing and voluntary guilty plea waived all nonjurisdictional error on appeal.
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