Bobby SMITH A.K.A. Dewey David Swink, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee

1986-10-23 · Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston) · United States

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1989-01-24Antonio PACHECO, Jr., Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeTexas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)1987-10-07LaStarza MANNIE, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeTexas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)×2

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1985-04-24Lester BOUTWELL, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1984-01-19Isidro Miguel VELOZ, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeTexas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

2 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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