court's judgment.
Factual and Procedural Background
Honeycutt was a United States Drug Enforcement Agency Task Force Officer. On January 25, 1999, Honeycutt, who was off duty but still in uniform, was following a group of individuals along a canal bank in Maverick county. Honeycutt shot his gun toward the individuals. Initially, Honeycutt told Texas Ranger Brooks Long that he saw a flash which he believed to be a gun, and therefore, fired at the individuals. Later, Honeycutt admitted to Federal Bureau of Investigations Agent Michael D. Wise that he had not been truthful and instead had "panicked" and fired "warning *547 shots." Honeycutt shot Abecnego Monje Ortiz, paralyzing him.
Honeycutt was charged with aggravated assault and deadly conduct. He pleaded guilty to both counts. After a hearing where both the StateMarvin got up to go to the bathroom, she rushed to Marvin’s

chair, where he had been sitting for two days, in an effort to find her phone and her keys. She

located both her phone and her keys and, when Marvin returned from the bathroom, he began

asking Casey questions regarding why she needed them. He threw her phone out the back

door into the kudzu and proceeded to wrestle with Casey to get her keys back. Casey testified

that, as they were wrestling, she informed Marvin that she needed to go to the hospital.

Finally, Marvin “got the keys away from me and broke the lanyard. Whenever it broke the

lanyard, it cut my hand.”

¶5.    The melee continued, and “[h]e grabbed me, and he put me on the ground, and