Legal Opinion
Hartfield v. Thaler
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 12, 2013No. AP-76,926PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · MeyersMeyers, J.
in which KELLER, P.J., PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, HERVEY, COCHRAN, and ALCALA, J.J., joined.
Petitioner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in June of 1977. On direct appeal we reversed his conviction and ordered a new trial. Hartfield v. State, 645 S.W.2d 436, 441 (Tex.Crim.App.1980). The State filed a motion for rehearing, which we denied on January 26, 1983. Mandate issued on March 4, 1983. Although the mandate reversing the conviction had already issued, the governor signed an order to commute Petitioner’s sentence from death to life imprisonment on March 15, 1983.…
3Cases cited6 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Whan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Turner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- AU Optronics Corporation v. State of South CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2012
- Hartfield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1983
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4Cited by12 opinions
- Hartfield v. OsborneCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2015
- State v. DavisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
- in Re Jerry Hartfield, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2014
- Ker'sean Ramey v. Lorie Davis, DirectorCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019
- Enrique Martinez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2016
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