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· 1/7/2016

Brandon Robisheaux v. State

Citations

  • 483 S.W.3d 205
  • 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 66
  • 2016 WL 105886

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that State’s need for extraneous evidence weighed “strongly in favor of admission” because the case was based on the complainant’s testimony alone
  • noting that the State’s need for extraneous-offense evidence was high when appellant argued that complainant had fabricated her allegations
  • determining that State’s need for evidence “weighs strongly in favor of admission” because without the evidence, the State’s case would have amounted to the complainant’s word against the defendant’s
  • recognizing trial courts are given “especially high level of deference” for Rule 403 determinations
  • defense brought up the child-victim’s prior mental-health treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Puryear, Goodwin, Bourland

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