Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Hunter
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided June 17, 2008No. 06-08-00041-CRPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Chief Justice MORRISS.
The jury was, listening to the second witness testifying at the trial1 of Jason Wayne Hunter on an aggravated sexual assault charge,2 when a break in the proceedings was taken. During that break, it was discovered that one of the jurors had previously served on a grand jury that had earlier indicted3 Hunter for the very crime *903being tried. After consulting with the parties immediately following this discovery, the trial court declared a mistrial.
Once the case was set for another trial, Hunter filed a pretrial application for writ of habeas corpus March…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Arizona v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. DinitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Downum v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Leonard Pierson, Jr. v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2013
- Ex Parte HunterCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2009
- Anthony Lamar Harvey v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2012
- Ex parte PerezCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
- Ex Parte Hunter, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2008
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