Legal Opinion

Proenza, Abraham Jacob

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 15, 2017No. PD-1100-15Published

1Opinion of the Court

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-1100-15 ABRAHAM JACOB PROENZA, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE THIRTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS CAMERON COUNTY K ELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Y EARY and K EEL, JJ., joined. Traditionally, the rule was that a party had to object at trial in order to preserve a complaint about an improper judicial comment.1 Then, in a plurality opinion in Blue,2 this Court said that some judicial comments—if they were bad enough—could constitute reversible error even if they were 1 Sharpe v.…

2Cases cited59 opinions

  1. Sharp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  2. Marin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1993
  3. Mendez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
  4. Quercia v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
  5. Saldano v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002

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