Antonio Gonzales, Appellant v. the State of Texas

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a trial court's erroneous exclusion of a proper question during jury voir dire is subject to a harmless error analysis, vacated the Court of Appeals' judgment and remanded for such analysis, and overruled Nunfio's categorical immunity rule. The Court reasoned that only structural federal constitutional errors are immune from harmless error review. The opinion was accompanied by a concurrence and a dissent, the latter arguing that a harmless error analysis is futile.