Legal Opinion

Aguilar, Jesus Ledesma

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 22, 2006No. WR-36,142-03Published

1Opinion of the Court

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. WR-36,142-03

EX PARTE JESUS LEDESMA AGUILAR, Applicant

ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

IN CAUSE NO. 95-CR-1088 FROM THE

107TH DISTRICT COURT OF CAMERON COUNTY

Price, J., filed a dissenting statement, in which Holcomb, J., joined.

DISSENTING STATEMENT

For reasons stated in my dissenting statements in Ex parte O=Brien, [1] and in Ex parte Hopkins,[2] I dissent to the failure of the Court to grant a stay of execution to allow time to consider whether, and if so, how, we should treat the applicant=s Eighth Amendment challenge to Texas=s lethal…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Sims v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
  4. State v. WebbSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
  5. Abdur'Rahman v. BredesenTennessee Supreme Court · 2005

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