Legal Opinion

Yarborough v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 11, 1997No. 0235-94Published

1Opinion of the Court

947 S.W.2d 892 (1997)

Larry YARBOROUGH, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas.

No. 0235-94.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

June 11, 1997.

Charles H. Roach, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Steven W. Conder, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

WOMACK, Judge.

The question in this case is whether a prosecutor's unchallenged statement about a venire member's demeanor can constitute adequate support for a trial court's finding in a Batson hearing.

The venire panel in this case comprised…

Also in this document: Concurrence · McCORMICK; Concurrence · Overstreet; Concurrence · Mansfield; Dissent.

2Cases cited62 opinions

  1. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Texas Department of Community Affairs v. BurdineSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  4. Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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