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Allen v. State

Citations

  • 253 S.W.3d 260
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 582
  • 2008 WL 1958939

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that, even had jury been properly instructed, it was “not likely” that jury would have found in defendant’s favor as to defensive issue
  • explaining that omission of reasonable-doubt language touched upon “vital aspect” of defendant’s case because her primary defensive theory was affected by error
  • “holding that when victim taunted defendant by verbally encouraging defendant to strike her, evidence raised issue of consent and required submission of consent instruction to jury”
  • finding no egregious harm when the case for punishment was not made clearly more persuasive by error
  • noting “[c]ommon experience tells us that such apparent bravado (‘go ahead,’ ‘come on,’ ‘slap me,’ ‘do it’
  • noting “[c] ommon experience tells us that such apparent bravado (‘go ahead,’ ‘come on,’ ‘slap me,’ ‘do it’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Price

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318 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Allen v. State

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