Justia Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Opinion Summaries

Defendant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death after murdering a 5-year-old girl and abandoning her partially burned body in an alley. Defendant raised 49 issues on appeal regarding the sufficiency of future dangerousness; limitations on voir dire questioning; denial of challenges for cause; cumulative voir dire error; exclusion of testimony; Fifth Amendment claims; exclusion of parole evidence; denial of parole instruction; improper jury argument; and death penalty statutes. The court affirmed the conviction and held that defendant's points of error were all without merit.