Padilla v. State

in which KELLER, P.J., WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

OPINION

A jury convicted appellant of capital murder (murder during the course of a robbery or an attempted robbery), and, with the State not having sought the death penalty, appellant received the mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. See § 12.31(a)(2), Tex. Penal Code. The ground upon which we granted review asks, “Did the Court of Appeals fail to follow Texas jurisprudence in erroneously affirming Petitioner’s conviction because the evidence is legally and factually…