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Phillips v. State

Citations

  • 193 S.W.3d 904
  • 2006 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1069
  • 2006 WL 1540780

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  • holding that failure to require State to elect upon timely request jeopardizes defendant’s right to a unanimous jury verdict and is constitutional error
  • holding that election errors should be analyzed under harm standard applicable to constitutional errors, at least insofar as error implicates notice and jury unanimity
  • holding that, upon timely request at the close of State’s case, State is required to elect as to which specific incident of sexual assault it will use to convict
  • noting that “Article 38.37 does allow for the admission of other crimes, wrongs or acts to be admitted when relevant”
  • noting that “Article 38.37 does allow for the admission of other crimes, wrongs or acts to be admitted when relevant”
  • noting that “Article 38.37 does allow for the admission of other crimes, wrongs or acts to be admitted when relevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Price, Meyers, Johnson, Holcomb, Cochran, Keller, Keasler, Hervey, Womack

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