Thompson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding direct comment was improper when prosecutor stated “there is one person we haven’t heard from,” while pointing at the defendant
• prosecutor committed reversible error by stating \there is one person we haven't heard from\ and gesturing toward the accused
• prosecutor's language in conjunction with pointing to defendant during jury argument was harmful error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-14· cited 435×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-03· cited 38×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 34×
• Roberts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-12-02· cited 30×
• Skidmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-13· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-09-11· cited 15×
• Hicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-08-01· cited 13×
• Vaughn Levy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-06
• Archer Bernard Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2019-09-12

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-08· cited 140×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 90×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-09-04· cited 46×
• Joines v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-21· cited 41×