Jonathan Price Larsen, II v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided June 26, 2008·No. 02-07-00108-CR·Published

Opinion

                                COURT OF APPEALS

                                       SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

                                       NOS.  2-07-108-CR

        2-07-109-CR

         2-07-110-CR

JONATHAN PRICE LARSEN, II                                               APPELLANT

                                                   V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS                                                                STATE

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FROM THE 415TH DISTRICT COURT OF PARKER COUNTY

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                                MEMORANDUM OPINION[1]

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In three points, Jonathan Price Larsen, II appeals his convictions and sentences for intoxication assault, for failure to stop and render aid, and for evading arrest or detention with a vehicle.  We affirm.  


I. Factual and Procedural Background

On March 16, 2006, Larsen had a dispute over a movie ticket with the assistant manager of a movie theater in Hudson Oaks, Texas.  The assistant manager called the Hudson Oaks Police Department (HOPD), and, according to her testimony, when HOPD officers approached Larsen=s vehicle, Larsen Apulled out and took off.@[2]

The HOPD officers activated their vehicles= lights and sirens and chased Larsen=s vehicle as he traveled on I-20 toward Weatherford at around 100 miles per hour.  Still following Larsen, the HOPD officers exited I-20 but then lost sight of Larsen=s vehicle.  When they reached the intersection of Bankhead Road and U.S. Highway 180, they found a severely damaged Weatherford police vehicle and Larsen=s smoking vehicle.


Weatherford Police Officer Gregory Stewart had been dispatched to lay down Aspike strips@ in an attempt to end the car chase, and Larsen=s vehicle, a heavy pickup truck, had collided with Officer Stewart=s vehicle in the intersection, slamming into the driver=s side door.  Officer Stewart suffered two pelvic fractures, a bruised spinal cord, a severe concussion, and nerve damage, as well as cuts, scrapes, and pieces of glass embedded in his scalp, all resulting in a permanent impairment rating of twenty-five percent.

Before the HOPD officers arrived, Larsen fled the scene on foot without giving aid to Officer Stewart.  Shortly thereafter, Weatherford police located Larsen, who was hiding in the back of a pickup truck at a local car dealership, and arrested him.  Lab analyses of two blood samples taken from Larsen that night revealed blood alcohol concentrations of .10 and .11.[3]

Larsen was indicted for intoxication assault, failure to stop and render aid (FSRA), and evading arrest or detention with a vehicle.  On January 25, 2007, he pleaded guilty to all three offenses and elected to have a jury assess punishment.


The trial court set the jury trial for February 26, 2007.  Larsen filed motions for continuance in all three causes on February 22, urging two grounds: (1) he needed additional time to have a second meeting with his retained mitigation expert before the expert testified at trial, and (2) he needed additional time to prepare for some of the State=s witnesses, identified Awithin the last week that it intends to call to testify at the trial in this matter.@  The trial court denied Larsen=s motions after a hearing on February 23.  Voir dire began on February 26, and Larsen=s punishment trial began on February 27.

During the punishment trial, Officer Stewart and others testified about the events of March 16, 2006, and the State presented evidence of Larsen=s criminal history, extraneous offenses, and other bad acts.[4]  Larsen, testifying on his own behalf, admitted that on the day that his vehicle collided with Officer Stewart=s vehicle, he had consumed Afive or six [c]rown and cokes@ and a six-pack of beer on the way home from work.  When asked by the State whether he was Ataking responsibility for the evading and failure to stop and render aid and getting drunk and nearly killing the officer,@ Larsen replied, A

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