Court Opinion

ID: 9760497
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:57:55.284384+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:12.936958
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MEYERS, Judge,
concurring.
The majority characterizes the submission of a reasonable doubt instruction as a systemic requirement that can neither be forfeited nor waived. Thus, the implementation of this requirement “cannot be avoided even with partisan consent” and, by necessary implication, a ease in which both parties requested that the reasonable doubt instruction not be given must be reversed on appeal. *722Marin v. State, 851 S.W.2d 275 (Tex.Crim.App.1993). Although somewhat troubling, this result cannot be avoided alter our unequivocal language in Geesa v. State, 820 S.W.2d 154, 155(Tex.Crim.App.1991). Such a result may, however, compel a majority of this Court to reexamine Geesa in the future and, were that to happen, I might very weE join them in that endeavor.
With these remarks, I join the majority’s opinion.