November 18, 2009, 21:06
Martin PetersonArevalo
It is gone at last. Never made much sense. This ruling could have preserved a lot of convictions in the past.
GreyNovember 19, 2009, 06:06
JBIt is not often that a court of last resort acknowledges that the dissenting voices in a previous case were right. Sometimes there is only one solution to a a bad case: overrule it.
Trial judges should be quite thankful. They no longer face potential reversal for deciding whether to put a lesser-included offense in the jury charge at the request of the prosecutor. Good stuff.
November 19, 2009, 07:56
JASWell done Lisa McMinn with the SPA's office!
JAS
December 03, 2009, 11:11
Martin PetersonDoes this ruling give any added hope that
Collier, 999 S.W.2d 779 (also written by Mansfield) might be overruled as well? The requirement of a request by the prosecutor no longer seems so important after
Grey to me.