Jourdan, Ricardo

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• noting that “the gravamen of the [Penal Code] subsection is penetration, not the various unspecified ‘means’ by which that penetration may be perpetrated”
• noting that “the gravamen of the [Penal Code] subsection is penetration, not the various unspecified 'means’ by which that penetration may be perpetrated”
• explaining that the “jury must be unanimous in finding every constituent element of the charged offense in all criminal cases”
• explaining that in examining statutory language for legislative intent, we inquire into the ‘gravamen’ of the offense
• stating that a relevant consideration in an egregious-harm analysis is “the likelihood that the jury would in fact have reached a non-unanimous verdict on the facts of the particular case”
• noting that “the gravamen of [§ 22.021(a)(1)(A)(i)] is penetration, not the various and unspecified ‘means’ by which that penetration may be perpetrated, which are not elemental” and holding that “the 15 penetration of a single orifice (the sexual organ

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Cited by

94 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Aekins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-10-22· cited 101×
• French, Cody Darus
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-12-19· cited 71×
• O'Brien v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-02· cited 55×
• Flores v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-29· cited 45×
• Saenz, Kimberly Clark
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-10· cited 35×
• Kent, Kevin Lavelle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-24· cited 20×
• Holton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-14· cited 16×
• Hodge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-04· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-01-24· cited 14×
• Casmir Irielle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-12· cited 13×
• Uddin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-10· cited 13×
• Robert Francis Ritz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-24· cited 12×
• Hudson, Cynthia Ann
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-10· cited 9×
• Kevin Lavelle Kent v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-28· cited 7×
• Damion Dewayne Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-09-03· cited 7×
• Charles Newman Smith, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-30· cited 4×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-01-09· cited 4×
• Robert Emmanuel Digman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-12-24· cited 3×
• Dalton James Bennett, Jr. A/K/A Dalton James Bennett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2015-07-01· cited 3×
• French v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-10· cited 3×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Ngo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 2,169×
• Stuhler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-24· cited 526×
• Cosio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 438×
• Vick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-02-24· cited 385×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-24· cited 356×
• Landrian v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-08· cited 344×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-04-12· cited 341×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-11-10· cited 267×
• Pizzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 239×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-01-25· cited 117×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-06· cited 106×
• Hendrix v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-16· cited 87×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-01-10· cited 70×
• Haight v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-06-09· cited 50×
• Valdez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2006-07-27· cited 17×
• Santee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-15· cited 17×

Other cases named Jourdan, Ricardo

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Jourdan, Ricardo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02