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Jackson v. State

Citations

  • 33 S.W.3d 828
  • 2000 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 112
  • 2000 WL 1839002

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that an escalating pattern of disrespect for the law supports a finding of future dangerousness
  • observing that Payne v. Tennessee only “discourages ‘measuring the worth of the victim compared to other members of society.”’
  • observing that Payne v. Tennessee only \discourages 'measuring the worth of the victim compared to other members of society.\'
  • holding victim-impact evidence offered in that case admissible not only with regard to the mitigation special issue but also with regard to the future dangerousness issue because the defendant could clearly have foreseen the impact of his offense on others
  • upholding an argument encouraging the jury not to impose a life sentence, which compared the defendant’s importance to the victim’s
  • permitting introduction of victim related evidence on the issue of future dangerousness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McCormick, Mansfield, Keller, Price, Holland, Womack, Keasler, Meyers, Point, Johnson

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