Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Christopher Jethro Emerson, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

February 24, 19931993 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 54

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the trial court erred in finding no purposeful racial discrimination in the use of peremptory challenges and in accepting the State’s race‑neutral explanations, reversing the judgment and remanding for a new trial.