Marlyn Edward Marras, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed the capital murder conviction but reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment because the evidence was insufficient to support the jury's finding of future dangerousness. It also upheld the trial court's rulings on the robbery element, indictment sufficiency, juror exclusions, videotape admission, and refusal to give a voluntary manslaughter instruction. A dissent argued that the majority misapplied Benson and Boozer to the punishment phase.