State v. Medrano, Matthew

COURT OF APPEALS

COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

Appellant,

v.

MATTHEW MEDRANO,

Appellee.

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No. 08-97-00492-CR

Appeal from the

41st District Court

of El Paso County, Texas

(TC# 970D07338)

O P I N I O N

This State=s appeal involves the trial court=s exclusion of hypnotically-enhanced testimony from the only eyewitness in a capital murder case. We affirm the trial court=s ruling and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Upon our original consideration of this State=s appeal, we determined that we had no jurisdiction to consider the trial…