Devine, TX Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

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Winning an appeal is like hitting the 'reset' button on your Nintendo. Instead of going off to prison for 3 years, you go back to the beginning of the process. Procedurally, it's as if you were arrested a few days ago, and just bonded out. Typically, appellate reversals are issue-based; not charge-based. In other words, once you win the appeal, and the case is remanded back to the original trial court, the DA's office can happily retry the case. All they have to do is avoid whatever it was that got the case overturned on appeal in the first place. The fact that you won the appeal doesn't mean the DA's office cannot retry you for the same offense, or a lesser-included offense. If you don't want to do probation on a lesser, you need to prepare to go to trial, argue it to a jury, and hope they agree (or have a reasonable doubt as to whether the State's evidence convinces them BRD that you did not in fact act in self-defense).