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Davis v. State

Citations

  • 349 S.W.3d 517
  • 2011 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 416
  • 2011 WL 1135373

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • distinguishing the death-penalty context regarding open-ended questions because narrower range of punishment means that \inquiries into what will influence [jurors'] decision are more likely to require commitments\
  • distinguishing the death- penalty context regarding open-ended questions because narrower range of punishment means that “inquiries into what will influence [jurors’] decision are more likely to require commitments”
  • not error to ask jurors to identify theories of punishment from a list of theories or to discuss factors the jurors considered important to punishment
  • not error to ask jurors to identify theories of punishment from a list of theories or to discuss factors the jurors considered important to punishment
  • question on what factors the venire believed to be important in assessing the sentence in a case of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon was not an improper commitment question

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Judges: Womack, Meyers, Price, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Cochran, Keller

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