Court hands down multiple guilty pleas and prison terms in Jefferson County cases

A Jefferson County judge accepted pleas and imposed sentences in multiple cases Tuesday, resolving a string of matters with prison terms, state-jail time or concurrent sentences.

LaCaven Jenkins pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery (first case) and to fraudulent use or possession of identifying information (second case). The judge accepted plea agreements and sentenced Jenkins to eight years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on the aggravated-robbery count and to five years on the identity-fraud count; the judge ordered the sentences to run concurrently.

Christopher Falk pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony count of assault on a public servant; the judge accepted the plea and sentenced Falk to four years in TDCJ, per the agreement. Sean Harley pleaded guilty to a state-jail-felony criminal mischief charge and a third-degree felony harassment-of-a-public-servant charge; the court sentenced Harley to one year in state jail on the criminal-mischief count and to three years in TDCJ on the harassment count, to run concurrently.

Demarcus Brown pleaded guilty to evading arrest or detention with a vehicle (third-degree felony) and received a five-year TDCJ sentence under his plea agreement. Gabriel Finley pleaded guilty to a class A misdemeanor terroristic threat and was sentenced to 60 days in the Jefferson County jail under his plea agreement.

In each case the court confirmed that defendants signed plea documents, that counsel reviewed the agreements with defendants, and that defendants understood the consequences (including waiver of appeal and possible immigration consequences for noncitizens). The court handed the trial-court certifications to each defendant to document waiver of appeal rights and also issued written admonishments about firearm-possession ineligibility where the convictions required such notice.