Clements v. the State (two Cases)

Summary

The court affirmed both defendants’ convictions, holding that the evidence supported Clements’s felony-murder conviction based on the reasonably foreseeable consequences of the conspiracy and supported Velazquez’s malice-murder conviction as a party to the crime. The court also upheld the denial of Clements’s general-grounds new-trial claim and rejected Velazquez’s corroboration, venue, mistrial, and ineffective-assistance claims. No separate opinions were filed.