That sounds a little unprofessional, and really uncool on the attorney’s part.
Very uncool. At least the DA tried to protect us a bit from him.
As a general rule, you are correct. However, Texas is different. Normally, jurors only decide the sentence in death penalty cases. In Texas, juries decide the vast majority of sentencing decisions. This is why I was asking how pullin felt about that process in particular. I was concerned that jurors couldn’t handle hearing heavy emotional testimony from prior victims, which would make it very hard to make a logical rather than emotion-based sentencing recommendation. (I am not sure I could do that after hearing about other rape or murders, for example.)
On the other hand, hearing the experience of someone who actually went through it is a hell of a lot more valuable than my theoretical thoughts on the subject, which is why I was so interested in their opinion.
In my experience, “Only Texas does it” is pretty much always a dead giveaway that whatever “it” is, is a terrible idea.
On the one hand, I have never been to Texas, so it probably isn’t fair for me to think that, but that definitely “feels” true in just about every case I can think of.