Bluitt v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “such an instruction is a useless act if no unadjudicated offenses have been introduced”
• concluding that no further proof is required by Article 37.07, section 3 for prior offenses that resulted in a final conviction, probation, or deferred adjudication
• holding that only types of evidence for which burden of proof is expressly articulated in article 37.07 section 3(a) are unadjudicated extraneous offenses and bad acts
• stating that no reasonable doubt instruction was required for offenses for which the defendant had been convicted because the reasonable doubt burden of proof was already met
• “Giving such an instruction is a useless act if no unadjudicated offenses have been introduced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).