Legal Opinion

Arrington, Charles

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 14, 2015No. PD-1448-13PublishedCited by 162 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

OPINION

2Opinion of the Court · AlcalaAlcala, J.

in which Keller, P.J., and Keasler, Hervey, Richardson, and Newell, JJ., joined.

This ease addresses whether a defendant suffers egregious harm from erroneous jury instructions permitting a non-unanimous verdict when a jury confronted with two diametrical positions reaches multiple verdicts signifying, in the aggregate, its belief in' the credibility of the State’s evidence and its disbelief in the defendant’s evidence. The State’s petition for discretionary review argues that the court of appeals erred by determining that erroneous jury instructions permitting non-unanimous jury…

3Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  2. Ngo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
  3. Hammock v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2001
  4. Yount v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1993
  5. Francis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000

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4Cited by162 opinions

  1. Green v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2015
  2. Flores v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
  3. Edwin Eugene Vernon, Jr. v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2018
  4. Robert Dale Hines v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)2017
  5. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017

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