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Lucero v. State - CCA

A jury in a capital murder case did not commit misconduct by considering Biblical scripture during punishment phase deliberations. Without deciding whether the foreman's reading from the Bible should be considered an "outside influence" on jurors, the Court ruled that there was no reasonable evidence in the record that the Bible passage affected the jurors' verdict of death. Lucero v. State, AP-75,247 [1].

Source URL: http://www.tdcaa.com/node/2113

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[1] http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OPINIONS/HTMLOPINIONINFO.ASP?OPINIONID=16529