Legal Opinion

Miller v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)

Decided December 19, 1996No. 08-95-00111-CRPublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

McCLURE, Justice.

Martin Milton Miller, Jr. (“Miller”) was found guilty of the murder of his brother, Bruce Edward Miller (“Bruce”). He was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,000. In his first point of error, Miller asserts that the State should not have tendered evidence of his post-arrest silence to impeach his self-defense theory. Because no objection was made at trial, he asserts that admission of this evidence constituted fundamental error. In his next three points of error, Miller asserts that his counsel was ineffective because he faded to object to evidence of…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  4. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1994
  5. Marin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1993

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3Cited by32 opinions

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  4. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. In re A.D.Court of Appeals of Texas · 2009

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