Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Hood
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided February 24, 2010No. AP-75,370PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Judgment of the CourtCochran, J.
in which PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined, and an opinion as to Parts I and II in which PRICE, JOHNSON and HOLCOMB, JJ, joined.
We wade once more into the murky waters of Penry law and the Texas death-penalty sentencing scheme. The ebb and flow of constitutional jurisprudence concerning when and what special instructions are necessary for the jury to give meaningful consideration to relevant mitigating evidence has sharply divided the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, and this Court for some twenty years. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has noted that…
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