Legal Opinion
Nieto v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 9, 2012No. PD-0230-11PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · MeyersMeyers, J.
in which KELLER, P.J., and PRICE, WOMACK, KEASLER, HERVEY, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
Appellant, Charles Nieto, appealed the trial court’s denial of his Batson motion, which he filed after all of the black venire members in the strike zone were struck by the State. The First Court of Appeals held that the trial court clearly erred in failing to find that the State’s proffered race-neutral reasons were a pretext for racial discrimination. Nieto v. State, No. 01-09-00226-CR, 2010 WL 5117349, 2010 Tex.App. LEXIS 9958 (TexApp.-Houston [1st Dist.] Dec. 16, 2010, pet. granted) (mem. op., not…
3Cases cited15 opinions
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4Cited by68 opinions
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