Legal Opinion
Ex Parte James
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided April 15, 1998No. 07-97-0319-CRPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYD, Chief Justice.
This appeal arises from the denial of a pretrial application for -writ of habeas corpus in a murder prosecution. As we will recite in more detail later, it concerns a trial juror who, after having indicated affirmatively that she could consider the full range of punishment attached to the crime, after being sworn and empaneled as a member of the trial jury, and after an overnight break, recanted and admitted to the court and counsel that she could not consider the full range of punishment specified for the crime. The question presented is whether, after a mistrial was…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Arizona v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Banda v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1994
- Torres v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
- Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- Ex Parte Glen Ray Bruce, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2003
- Ex Parte Glen Ray Bruce, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2003