and evidence. On March 6, the court denied the motion and the request for an evidentiary hearing. When the parties appeared the next day, defense counsel urged the court to reconsider its ruling, noting that he had received documents the day before from Houston indicating that at the time of trial Cavalier had a prior conviction there for which he had been placed on probation. Defense counsel noted that the conviction was labeled a "deferred adjudication of guilt" for a felony, which he indicated meant that Cavalier had been convicted but placed on probation. Defense counsel stated that he asked Cavalier the night before about the conviction and Cavalier told him that he did not remember if he told anyone from the State about this conviction. Defense counselfor the State first electing to charge him only with the accessory to murder and then dropping that charge and allowing him to plead guilty to the obliteration of a weapon charge and to two unrelated assault charges for which he received inactive probation. Thus, the jurors had a stronger basis upon which to find Cavalier's testimony suspect but, nonetheless, found that his testimony was credible. Further, Cavalier's testimony was cumulative to that of Bailey. Both witnesses testified that the defendant and Bailey solicited Cavalier for the gun that was used in the robbery and murder. Both witnesses testified Cavalier gave the gun to both Bailey and the defendant and that the Bailey and the defendant returned the gun to Cavalier after the murder. Both witnesses testified that