Legal Opinion
Genovevo Salinas v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided March 17, 2011No. 14-09-00395-CRPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JEFFREY V. BROWN, Justice.
A jury found appellant Genovevo Salinas guilty of two counts of murder and sentenced him to twenty years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Salinas appeals his conviction contending that: (1) his attorney rendered ineffective assistance at trial by failing to object to improper opinion testimony regarding Salinas’s truthfulness, and (2) the trial court improperly admitted evidence of Salinas’s silence during a pre-arrest interview. We affirm.
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Genovevo Salinas was convicted of murdering brothers Juan and Hector Garza in the early morning hours of December 18,…
2Cases cited44 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1999
- Florida v. BostickSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Fisher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Goodspeed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Salinas v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
- Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Molina, M.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Commonwealth v. MolinaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
- Salinas, GenovevoCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2012
- Brad Joseph Fenn v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2011
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