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Grijalva v. State

Citations

  • 614 S.W.2d 420
  • 1980 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1351

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding, in death penalty case, that State was given unfair advantage in the jury selection process when the trial court allowed it to exercise peremptory strikes after entire panel was questioned
  • holding, in death penalty case, that State was given unfair advantage in the jury selection process when the trial court allowed it to exercise peremptory strikes after entire panel was questioned
  • rejecting argument as matter of state law because allowing retrospective exercise of peremptory challenges on appeal transforms \a peremptory strike against a prospective juror\ into \a peremptory strike against a ground of error\
  • re jecting argument as matter of state law because allowing retrospective exercise of peremptory challenges on appeal transforms “a peremptory strike against a prospective juror” into “a peremptory strike against a ground of error”
  • “Whether or not the concept of determining the probability of future conduct is mathematically viable, it is clear that the concept is viable in law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Teague, McCormick, Odom, Roberts, Douglas

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