Legal Opinion
Phillips v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 7, 2006No. PD-1575-04PublishedCited by 172 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
Court,
in which MEYERS, JOHNSON, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
Phillips was convicted of three counts of sexual assault. In a separate and unrelated case, Farr was convicted of two counts of sexual assault. In both cases, the State introduced multiple occurrences of each type of assault, and the trial court refused to require the State to elect, at the close of the State’s evidence, which occurrence it would use to convict. Phillips and Farr appealed their sexual assault convictions. The court of appeals found error in both cases, finding harm of a constitutional nature in two of…
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- Crawford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
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