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Appellant M.R.R., Jr., a juvenile, was found to have engaged in delinquent conduct by committing capital murder and received a forty-year determinate sentence. The appellant appealed, alleging the trial court failed to provide the mandatory admonitions required by TEX.FAM.CODE ANN., Sec. 54.03(b) at the adjudication hearing. The Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio, sustained the appellant's point of error, holding that the omission of these admonitions constituted fundamental, reversible error that could not be waived by lack of objection or deemed harmless. The court rejected the State's arguments to abandon the fundamental error doctrine or apply a harmless error analysis. Consequently, the appellate court reversed the trial court's judgment and remanded the cause for a new trial.
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Appellant M.R.R., Jr., a juvenile, was found to have engaged in delinquent conduct by committing capital murder and received a forty-year determinate sentence. The appellant appealed, alleging the trial court failed to provide the mandatory admonitions required by TEX.FAM.CODE ANN., Sec. 54.03(b) at the adjudication hearing. The Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio, sustained the appellant's point of error, holding that the omission of these admonitions constituted fundamental, reversible error that could not be waived by lack of objection or deemed harmless. The court rejected the State's arguments to abandon the fundamental error doctrine or apply a harmless error analysis. Consequently, the appellate court reversed the trial court's judgment and remanded the cause for a new trial.
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