Castaneda v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that appellant failed to preserve his complaint about the sentence being cruel and unusual since he neither objected to it when the trial court pronounced it nor raised it in a motion for new trial
• holding Castaneda’s Eighth Amendment complaint failed because punishment was within statutory range, and he failed to show his sentence was disproportionate to others’
• holding complaint of cruel and unusual punishment under the Texas Constitution was not preserved
• “Constitutional rights, including the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, may be waived.”
• “In some instances, an appellant may preserve a sentencing issue by raising it in a motion for new trial.”
• “In some instances, an appellant may preserve a sentencing issue by raising it in a motion for new trial.”

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