Legal Opinion
Cosio v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 14, 2011No. PD-1435-10PublishedCited by 351 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · KeaslerKeasler, J.
We hold that the trial judge’s instructions to the jury permitted non-unanimous verdicts. There were several instances of sexual criminal conduct that could have satisfied the charged offenses, and the judge failed to instruct the jury that it must be unanimous about which instance of criminal conduct satisfied each charged. But we conclude that Jesus Eduardo Cosio was not egregiously harmed. We therefore reverse and remand this case to the court of appeals for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. Background
Cosio was charged by indictment with several felony offenses stemming…
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