Beltran, Ricardo v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “sudden passion and self-defense are not mutually exclusive” and that jury’s rejection of self-defense theory at guilt-innocence phase does not preclude submission of sudden passion issue at punishment phase
• requiring sufficient evidence of understanding and common design for party liability
• “Sudden passion is a mitigating circumstance that is relevant to determining the appropriate punishment of a defendant.”
• “To justify a jury instruction on the issue of sudden passion at the punishment phase, the record must at least minimally support an inference: (1
• “Sudden passion is a mitigating circumstance that is relevant to determining the appropriate punishment of a defendant.”
• “Sudden passion is a mitigating circumstance that is relevant to determining the appropriate punishment of a defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).