Legal Opinion
Watkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided February 13, 2008No. PD-1438-06PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
in which MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
After a jury trial, the appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary of a habitation, and his punishment was assessed by the jury at a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. On direct appeal the appellant claimed, inter alia, that the State exercised a number of its peremptory challenges to remove African-American panelists on account of their race. In an unpublished opinion, the Dallas Court of Appeals held that the trial court’s ruling that the appellant failed to establish purposeful…
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