Joe Luis Becerra v. the State of Texas

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-0280-22 JOE LUIS BECERRA, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE TENTH COURT OF APPEALS BRAZOS COUNTY NEWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which HERVEY, RICHARDSON, WALKER, and MCCLURE, JJ., joined. YEARY, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KEEL, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which KELLER, P.J., and SLAUGHTER, J., joined. In this case, the trial court inadvertently allowed an alternate juror to go back into the jury deliberation room and participate in a vote on Becerra - 2 the…