Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 10/27/1993

Chambers v. State

Citations

866 S.W.2d 9
1993 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 166
1993 WL 431505

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observing that a prospective juror’s vacillation on an issue related to the death penalty was a race-neutral explanation for the State’s peremptory strike of the juror
determining that, when the prosecutor did not object to the trial judge’s failure to rule on the defendant’s prima facie case, that issue became moot and could not be raised on appeal
holding inability to consider full range of punishment a race-neutral reason for strike
assuming without deciding that “failure to specify the manner and means of strangulation was error” and proceeding immediately to harm analysis
assuming without deciding that “failure to specify the manner and means of strangulation was error” and proceeding immediately to harm analysis
characterizing a positive promise as one that denotes an “if-then relationship” that induces the appellant to confess by implicitly or explicitly suggesting a “deal, bargain, agreement, exchange, or contingency.”

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Judges: Miller, Clinton

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