Carlos Ramirez, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court reversed the trial court’s death sentence and remanded for a new trial, holding that the trial court’s failure to give a Penry‑type mitigating instruction was reversible error. It affirmed the admissibility of most evidentiary rulings, including the victim’s statement about rape, the chemist’s testimony, photographs, and extraneous offense evidence, while finding error only in the admission of a statement about stealing a car and in the trial court’s handling of Miranda warnings.