Opinion

Guzman v. State

  • 85 S.W.3d 242
  • 2002 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 107
  • 2002 WL 1021816
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
May 22, 2002
Status
Published
Author
Johnson
On the bench
Cochran, Keller, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, Womack, Meyers, Price, Johnson
Cited by
162 cases

recognizing that A Batson @ claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity.

How later courts described this case

  • recognizing that A Batson @ claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity.
  • finding medical evidence, appellant’s assertion that he was the only person with the child at the time of injuries and appellant’s inconsistent statements about the origin of injuries sufficient to support conviction
  • stating the prosecutor's strategy of selecting jurors not prone to have a prejudice against either the police officers or the State was race-neutral
  • recognizing that Batson claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

JOHNSON, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion.

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