Gary Lynn Ramsey v. the State of Texas

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• holding that the flight instruction was warranted where the defendant escaped from the Lake County Jail by holding a razor to another inmate’s throat and fleeing once the cell door opened
• holding that a witness’s unsolicited remark identifying the offense as a “Class X felony,” a category of crimes formerly assigned to the most serious non-homicide crimes, was cured by the trial court’s prompt instruction to disregard it

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