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Garcia v. State

Citations

  • 868 S.W.2d 337
  • 1993 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 148
  • 1993 WL 366511

How courts have described this case

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  • finding an opinion pending on rehearing in the Court of Criminal Appeals for 10 months is “not final” or “part of the jurisprudence of this State,” and therefore, deciding not to follow it
  • finding an opinion pending on rehearing in the Court of Criminal Appeals for 10 months is “not final” or “part of the jurisprudence of this State,” and therefore, deciding not to follow it
  • medical examiners’ primary responsibility is to determine the cause of death
  • In general, medical examiners are not law enforcement personnel for purposes of the public-records hearsay exception because they have no inherent motivation to distort the results of their reports and their reports are not prepared in an adversarial context.

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Judges: Baird, Maloney, Clinton, Overstreet, Meyers

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