Legal Opinion
Wooten, Codiem Renoir
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 12, 2013No. PD-1437-12PublishedCited by 211 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
A jury rejected the appellant’s self-defense claim, convicted him of murder, and assessed his punishment at sixty years’ confinement in the penitentiary. At the punishment phase of the trial, the appellant requested a sudden passion instruction. The trial court denied his request, and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals affirmed the appellant’s conviction but reversed the trial court’s judgment with respect to punishment, finding that the trial court erred by not giving the sudden passion instruction and that the error was “harmful.” 1 According to the court of appeals, the mere fact that…
3Cases cited17 opinions
- Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Ngo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
- Posey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998
- Middleton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2003
- Warner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2008
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4Cited by211 opinions
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- Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe RodriguezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2016
- Mejia v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2018
- Beltran, Ricardo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2015
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