Court Opinion

ID: 9406669
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-07-03 04:09:57.749325+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:32.502292
License: Public Domain

In the Court of Criminal
           Appeals of Texas
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                           NO. PD-0289-20
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                  CHARLES ROBERT RANSIER,
                               Appellant
                                   v.

                      THE STATE OF TEXAS

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        On State’s Petition for Discretionary Review
          From the Fourteenth Court of Appeals
                       Comal County
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      YEARY, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
      I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion Chavez
v. State, 666 S.W.3d 772, 792 (Tex. Crim. App. 2023) (Yeary, J.,
dissenting) (“So long as the potential for doubt with respect to the
elevating element is not an irrational one based upon all the evidence
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that bears on the question, the jury’s potential response may well
provide a basis for the trial court to conclude that the defendant could
rationally be found ‘guilty only’ of the lesser-included offense. If so, then,
upon request for the instruction by either party, the lesser-included
offense has become ‘the law applicable to the case’ for purposes of
instructing the jury under the dictates of Article 36.14.”).

FILED:                                    June 28, 2023
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