Legal Opinion

Medina v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 6, 1999No. 72594PublishedCited by 517 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

OPINION

2Opinion of the Court · KellerKeller, J.

in which McCORMICK, P.J. and MANSFIELD, PRICE, HOLLAND, JOHNSON, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.

The Court’s prior opinion is withdrawn.

Appellant was convicted in August 1996 of a capital murder committed on January 1, 1996. Tex. Penal Code § 19.03. The verdicts required the trial court to sentence appellant to death. Tex. Code Crim. PROC. art. 37.071 § 2. Appeal from the sentence of death is direct and automatic to this Court. Id; Tex. Const. Art. I, § 5. Appellant raises twenty-two points of error. We will affirm.

*636I. SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE

A. Legal Sufficiency

In points of error one and…

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3Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  4. Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
  5. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972

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4Cited by517 opinions

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