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Escobedo v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)

Decided May 19, 1999No. 04-98-00355-CRPublishedCited by 255 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

TOM RICKHOFF, Justice.

A jury convicted Robert Escobedo and his codefendant, Robert Guevara, of two counts of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced them to twenty years on each count. In five issues presented Escobedo disputes the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction, the effectiveness of the assistance rendered by his trial counsel, and the trial court’s decisions not to instruct the jury on “reasonable doubt” at the punishment phase and not to grant him a new trial. We affirm.

FACTS

Because Escobedo attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to support…

2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
  4. Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. In Re King's EstateTexas Supreme Court · 1951

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3Cited by255 opinions

  1. Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2003
  2. Thompson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)2001
  3. Dunklin v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)2006
  4. Woodall v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2002
  5. Buster v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)2004

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