Legal Opinion
in Re Jerry Hartfield
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided August 14, 2014No. 13-14-00238-CVPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice RODRIGUEZ.
In June 1977, a jury convicted appellant Jerry Hartfield of capital murder and sentenced him to death. On September 17, 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction and ordered a new trial. Hartfield v. State (Hartfield I), 645 S.W.2d 436, 441 (Tex.Crim.App.1980) (en banc) (reversing and remanding for a new trial on the basis that the State violated Hartfield’s rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by striking a juror fqr cause because of her reservations about the death penalty). The court of criminal appeals issued its…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- United States v. MacDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Hartfield v. OsborneCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2015
- Alberto Alba Villarreal v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
- Hartfield v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
- Ex Parte Eddie Thomas Chapa, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2018
- Ex Parte Jo Leigh Ares, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2019
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