Cortez v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[T]he only punishment that you can assess that would be any satisfaction at all to the people of this county would be life” was improper argument
• holding that argument that only life imprisonment “would be any satisfaction at all to the people of this county” was improper plea for jury to heed expectations of community
• holding trial court erred in overruling appellant = s objection to improper argument
• noting the trial court erred in overruling the defendant’s objection to the argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).