Floyd v. State

STUART, Justice.1

This Court issued a writ of certiorari to determine whether the following holdings of the Court of Criminal Appeals in Christopher Anthony Floyd’s appeal from his capital-murder conviction are proper: that the Houston Circuit Court (“the trial court”) did not err in holding that the State provide4 valid race- and gender-neutral reasons for its exercise of its peremptory strikes during jury selection, that the trial court did not err by refusing to admit into evidence all of Floyd’s statements made to .law-enforcement officers, and that the trial court did not err in denying…