Legal Opinion
Weatherred v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided March 29, 2000No. 291-99PublishedCited by 985 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · MansfieldMansfield, J.
in which McCORMICK, P.J., and KELLER, HOLLAND, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.
The question presented is whether the Ninth Court of Appeals erred in holding that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding expert testimony on the reliability of eyewitness identifications. We hold that the Court of Appeals did err.
The Relevant Facts1
A Montgomery County grand jury indicted appellant, Jon David Weatherred, for the capital murder of William Ralph Strawn in The Woodlands in 1988. See Tex. Pen.Code § 19.03(a)(2). At trial, the State’s case relied in part on the testimony of two eyewitnesses…
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