Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Defendant's 1990 conviction for capital murder of his wife's mother, father and brother, and sentence to death are affirmed over challenges regarding: 1) the sufficiency of the evidence to prove future dangerousness; 2) admissibility of an expert testimony concerning future dangerousness; 3) admissibility of an investigator's testimony; 4) trial court's denial of defendant's motion for a mistrial for emotional outbursts by two witnesses; 5) admission of the hearsay statement by a witness's sister; 6) trial court's limitation of voir dire questions; 7) mitigating instruction; and 8) constitutionality of the Texas death penalty statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/13/2010
• Published 10/13/2010

Judges

• Cochran

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel