Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

In a prosecution of defendant for murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit aggravated sexual assault, trial court's sentence of defendant to death on remand is affirmed where: 1) trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of Satanism; 2) trial court's denial of defendant's challenges for cause is supported by the record; 3) trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting expert testimony over defendant's reliability objections; 4) trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's Batson challenge; 5) defendant has failed to demonstrate a Confrontation Clause violation; 6) trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting the photographs that had been previously admitted at the 2002 trial; 7) trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of defendant's "jokes" told to his brother while incarcerated; 8) defendant's claim that the trial court erred in allowing the state to argue that defendant was a con man is rejected; and 9) defendant's claim that the trial court improperly prevented him from making his desired closing arguments to the jury is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/29/2010
• Published 09/29/2010

Judges

• Johnson, J

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel