Legal Opinion

LaFleur v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 21, 2003No. 1447-02Published

1Opinion of the Court 1

106 S.W.3d 91 (2003)

Michael Winn LAFLEUR, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas.

No. 1447-02.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En banc.

May 21, 2003.

Harold J. Lane, Jr., Beaumont, for Appellant.

Jeffrey L. Van Horn, First Asst. State's Atty., Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION

2Opinion of the Court · CochranCochran, J.

Concluding that our prior decision in Davis v. State[1] required it to do so, the court of appeals deleted the deadly weapon finding in appellant's manslaughter judgment.[2] In Davis, we held that "deadly weapon" language in a lesser-included manslaughter application paragraph (when a…

3Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Seminole Tribe of Florida v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  2. Payne v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Vasquez v. HillerySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  4. Paulson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  5. Posey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998

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