Slater v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““After reviewing the file and the earlier decisions by the Court of Criminal Appeals it appears that there are two issues which need to be addressed. First, the failure of the Defendant’s attorney to object to collateral instances of sexual misconduct and two, the failure of defense counsel to require the State to elect which count for which it was prosecuting the Defendant. In this order the Court addresses those issues in inverse order. “The Defendant says that he was rendered ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel did not force the State to elect which count he was being prosecuted for. There was but one count in the indictment, that charging the Defendant with Sodomy, 2nd degree. The Court of Criminal Appeals pointed out in its October, 1994, opinion that this Court should make findings in this case because the State attempted to submit several different incidents to the jury without specifying upon which incident conviction was sought and that the jury should have been instructed as to exactly which act or incident was to be considered in their determination of guilt. The transcript from the trial should clearly show whether this occurred or not. The evidence presented by the Defendant at the hearing before this Court showed three different incidents testified to by the victim. Only one incident of Sodomy by the Defendant toward the vie- tim occurred in Dallas County. That incident was testified to have occurred at a Mr. Dozier’s house somewhere betw”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Slater v. State