Court Opinion

ID: 9406670
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-07-03 04:09:58.577135+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:32.471406
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                        OF TEXAS

                                     NO. PD-0289-20

                      CHARLES ROBERT RANSIER, Appellant

                                              v.

                                THE STATE OF TEXAS

            ON STATE=S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
               FROM THE FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS
                            COMAL COUNTY

              KEEL, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which SLAUGHTER, J., joined.

                               CONCURRING OPINION

       I agree with the majority; Appellant was not entitled to an instruction on attempted

tampering by concealment because, while there was testimony both that he concealed the

syringe and tried to conceal it, there was no evidence that he only tried to conceal it.

And I appreciate and endorse the majority’s narrowing of Bullock v. State, 509 S.W.3d

921 (Tex. Crim. App. 2016). But our caselaw on requiring lesser-included-offense

instructions on defense request is still muddled, and I would like to clear it up more
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definitively. See Chavez v. State, 666 S.W.3d 772, 782 (Tex. Crim. App. 2022) (Keel,

J., concurring). Maybe someday we will. In the meantime, I join the majority’s step in

that direction.

Delivered: June 28, 2023

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