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Lucas v. State

Citations

  • 791 S.W.2d 35
  • 1989 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 55
  • 1989 WL 24594

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that Lucas did not invoke his right to counsel and that \[t]o hold otherwise would be to refuse to grant proper respect to appellant's own desire to confess his criminal conduct on his own terms\ (emphasis added)
  • concluding that Lucas did not invoke his right to counsel and that “[t]o hold otherwise would be to refuse to grant proper respect to appellant’s own desire to confess his criminal conduct on his own terms” (emphasis added)
  • concluding that Lucas did not invoke his right to counsel and that \[t]o hold otherwise would be to refuse to grant proper respect to appellant's own desire to confess his criminal conduct on his own terms\ (emphasis added)
  • concluding that Lucas did not invoke his right to counsel and that “[t]o hold otherwise would be to refuse to grant proper respect to appellant’s own desire to confess his criminal conduct on his own terms” (emphasis added)
  • explaining that admission of evidence depicting defendant in handcuffs was error because it impacted “the constitutional presumption of innocence”
  • stating that evidence of lack of reformation or subsequent felony and certain misdemeanor conviction may then cause prior conviction to fall outside general rule and not be subject to objection based on remoteness

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Judges: Davis, McCormick, Clinton, Teague

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