Legal Opinion

DeBlanc v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1987No. 69580PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

McCORMICK, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of capital murder and assessed the death penalty. Appellant raised twelve points of error on appeal but, due to the nature of his ninth point of error, we restrict our discussion today solely to that point.

In his ninth point of error, appellant argues that he was denied a fair trial under Article I, Section 10 of the Texas Constitution and the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when the prosecutor used a combination of challenges for cause and peremptory challenges to strike all the blacks from the jury…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  4. Henry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
  5. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Stanley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1988
  2. Salazar v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
  3. Spence v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
  4. Hutchinson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
  5. Mathews v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1989

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