Francis, Tracy Blaine

OPINION

in which MEYERS, WOMACK, KEASLER, HERVEY, COCHRAN and ALCALA, JJ., joined.

A jury convicted the appellant of aggravated robbery and assessed his punishment, enhanced with one prior felony conviction, at seventy-five years’ imprisonment. On appeal, the appellant argued that the prosecutor willfully violated a pre-trial discovery order and that the trial court erred in failing to exclude from jury consideration the evidence that was wrongfully withheld from his court-ordered pre-trial scrutiny. The court of appeals held, with one justice dissenting, that the trial court did not abuse its…