(DOWNLOAD) "Lagunas v. State" by In the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Lagunas v. State
- Author : In the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas
- Release Date : January 26, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
Description
After a jury trial, appellant Adrian Lagunas was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and burglary of a habitation, and the district court sentenced him to confinement of twenty years and thirty-five years, respectively. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. §Â§ 20.04(a), 30.02(a) (West 2003). In this appeal, we will consider Lagunass claim that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation with regard to hearsay testimony from the complainants four-year-old child that the district court admitted as an excited utterance, a contention that implicates Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). Lagunas also argues that the trial court abused its discretion in its application of the excited utterance hearsay exception, that the evidence is legally insufficient to support a conviction for burglary or for aggravated kidnapping, and that the evidence is factually insufficient to prove Lagunass identity as the person who committed the acts alleged. We will affirm the judgment of the district court.