Legal Opinion

Campos v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

Decided November 23, 2005No. 01-04-00601-CRPublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SHERRY RADACK, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Gilbert Garcia Campos, of robbery and assessed punishment at 47 years’ confinement. Appellant pled true to the enhancement paragraphs in the indictment. In four points of error, appellant contends the trial court improperly admitted four out-of-court statements into evidence as excited utterances, which he claims violated both (1) the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and (2) the Texas Rules of Evidence. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On July 14, 2003, appellant bound, gagged, and robbed the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. Zuliani v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2003
  4. Lilly v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  5. Cantu v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992

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3Cited by41 opinions

  1. Martinez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2007
  2. Wright v. QuartermanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2006
  3. Vinson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2007
  4. Mims v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2007
  5. Antonio Fitzgerald Cox v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2009

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