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Bible v. State

Citations

  • 162 S.W.3d 234
  • 2005 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 704
  • 2005 WL 1027486

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that oral statement was extension of earlier interview where defendant received fully effective equivalent of statutory warnings
  • concluding that “the prosecutor’s reference to the absence of documentary evidence did not constitute a shifting of the burden of proof”
  • holding that prosecutor’s reference to absence of documentary evidence did not constitute shifting of burden of proof
  • stating that State may comment on defendant’s failure to call certain witnesses and such comment is not impermissible attempt to shift burden of proof
  • stating that State may comment on defendant’s failure to call certain witnesses and such comment is not impermissible attempt to shift burden of proof
  • explaining that it is “well-settled that the prosecutor, in argument, may comment on the defendant’s failure to call certain witnesses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Keller, Meyers, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, Cochran, Price

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

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Bible v. State

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