Legal Opinion
Johnson v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided February 25, 1998No. 05-95-00806-CRPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*287OPINION
MOSELEY, Justice.
A jury convicted Johnny Ray Johnson of murder and assessed a forty-five-year sentence. Appellant raised five points of error on appeal contending, among other things, that the trial court erred in overruling his Batson1 objections to the State’s peremptory strikes of two prospective jurors. For the reasons set forth below, we overrule all of appellant’s points and affirm the trial court’s judgment.
BACKGROUND
While on patrol in the early morning hours of October 8, 1994, a Dallas police officer came upon a van stopped on the street with the headlights on. He stopped to…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
- Jaynes v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2006
- Chinnery v. PeopleSupreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 2011
- Bausley v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)1999
- Wiggins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2014
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