Rhodes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• urging jurors to send message to police that “we are proud of you and we appreciate what you are doing for us”
• allowing prosecutor to tell the jury that through its verdict it could either show police officers “we don’t mind if you get shot” or “we are proud of you and we appreciate what you are doing for us”
• prosecutor made a proper plea to law enforcement by arguing that the jury could send a message that it was “proud” of its law enforcement officers and that it intended to support the officers and find the defendant guilty for the offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Robbins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2004-09-01· cited 38×
• Langham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-12-07· cited 22×
• Thomas Henry Rhodes v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-26· cited 8×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-28· cited 3×
• Mark E. Robbins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2004-08-12
• Robert Walter Bonner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2010-09-08
• Octavio Amaro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2016-06-14
• Jose Barbontin Salas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-08-06
• Kelly Jo Ivey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2017-08-08
• Aaron Caleb Swenson v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2022-10-07