Payne, Jason Thad

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. PD–1214–11

JASON THAD PAYNE, Appellant v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

FROM THE TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS

WOOD COUNTY

M EYERS, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

DISSENTING OPINION

The majority reverses after concluding that the court of appeals erred in determining that the admission of several erroneously admitted victim statements was harmless. I disagree with this conclusion. After examining the court of appeals opinion, I agree that the admission of the statements was harmless error, and feel that the analysis conducted by the court of appeals is more accurate than the analysis conducted by the Payne Dissent–Page 2 majority. There is no way a rational trier of fact would have reached a different result had the error not occurred.1

With these comments, I respectfully dissent.

Meyers, J.

Filed: February 27, 2013

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