Orona v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that error in prosecutor’s accusation that defendant’s attorneys “know how to argue to get people off” was harmless in that statement was not so prejudicial, under facts of the case, as to call for reversal
• concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that error in prosecutor’s accusation that defendant’s attorneys “know how to argue to get people off” was harmless in that statement was not so prejudicial, under facts of the case, as to call for reversal
• passing as opposed to emphasized or repeated improper comment tends toward a finding of harmlessness
• passing as opposed to emphasized or repeated improper comment tends toward a finding of harmlessness
• concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that error in prosecutor = s accusation that defendant = s attorneys A know how to argue to get people off @ was harmless in that statement was not so prejudicial, under facts of the case, as to call for reversal
• statement by prosecution that defense counsel was adept at getting criminal defendants “off the hook” did not contribute to conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Cockrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,118×
• Lagrone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 911×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 557×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-11· cited 292×
• Coggeshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-15· cited 291×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-23· cited 254×
• Coble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-03· cited 206×
• Harnett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-11-16· cited 186×
• Goldberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-08-22· cited 170×
• Whiting v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-24· cited 153×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-06· cited 138×
• Thompson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-11-07· cited 106×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 101×
• Rudd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1996-04-23· cited 94×
• State v. Blankenship
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-08-12· cited 89×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-01-10· cited 82×
• Bryant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-05-22· cited 75×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-09-30· cited 73×