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Collins v. State

Citations

  • 640 S.W.2d 288
  • 1982 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1021

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  • holding that, because a rational factfinder could have inferred from the facts in that case that the prosecutors had intended to provoke the mistrial in order to obtain a more favorable jury at a second trial, the defendant was entitled to have the special plea submitted to the jury
  • “as a matter of federal law, the ultimate fact question, the intent of the prosecutors, is a question to be resolved by the finder of fact”

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Judges: Roberts, Davis

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