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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 273 S.W.3d 200
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 692
  • 2008 WL 2355932

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that trial court did not err by failing to provide limiting instruction when appellant failed to request instruction at time evidence was admitted
  • concluding that trial court did not err by failing to provide limiting instruction when appellant failed to request instruction at time evidence was admitted
  • reiterating that if the State's evidence on future dangerousness is overwhelming, error is more likely to be harmless
  • reiterating that if the State’s evidence on future dangerousness is overwhelming, error is more likely to be harmless
  • deciding the issue of whether a defendant had the right to insist on a waiver of the mitigation special issue in a death penalty case and concluding that he did
  • stating that failing to object at trial generally waives complaint for appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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