Clements v. the State (two Cases)

Summary

The court affirmed both defendants’ convictions arising from the armed burglaries, police chase, and killing of Deputy Dixon. It held that the evidence supported Clements’s felony-murder conviction because death was reasonably foreseeable from the dangerous criminal venture, and supported Velazquez’s convictions because he shared a common criminal intent with the shooter and his accomplices’ testimony was corroborated. The court also rejected Velazquez’s venue, mistrial, and ineffective-assistance claims, concluding that some claims were waived or moot and that counsel’s performance was not deficient or prejudicial.