Scott Leslie Carmell v. State

COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH NO. 2-97-197-CR SCOTT LESLIE CARMELL APPELLANT V. THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE ------------ FROM THE 367TH DISTRICT COURT OF DENTON COUNTY ------------ OPINION ------------ Introduction In this out-of-time appeal, Scott Leslie Carmell brings four issues: (1) the United States Supreme Court‘s holding in Carmell v. Texas, 529 U.S. 513,

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(2000), requires entry of a judgment of acquittal on four of the counts for which he was originally convicted (counts seven through ten); (2) the trial court‘s failure to instruct the jury that it…