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EX PARTE WATKINS

Nos. 1460-01, 1461-01.

73 S.W.3d 264 (2002)

Ex parte Jimmy Dean WATKINS.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 3, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Mullen, Fort Worth, for Appellant.

Steven W. Conder, Asst. DA, Fort Worth, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

OPINION

COCHRAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which MEYERS, PRICE, JOHNSON, and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel applies in a subsequent prosecution of appellant for attempted capital murder or attempted murder of his wife's lover, when a prior jury found that appellant killed his wife "in sudden passion" during the same transaction...

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