Dudzik v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant “was entitled to offer evidence of extraneous acts of violence by the victim” because defendant “testified that [victim] was the first aggressor”
• explaining that “the defendant may not offer evidence of the victim’s prior specific acts of violence to prove the victim’s violent character and hence that the victim acted in conformity with that character trait at the time of the assault”
• trial court erroneously excluded witness testimony about an incident similar to the one the defendant was charged with
• “The issue of self-defense is a fact issue to be determined by the jury, which is free to accept or reject the defensive issue.”
• trial court abused its discretion by excluding victim’s prior acts of violence, which tended to show that the victim was actually the first aggressor by demonstrating the victim’s state of mind when he hears racial slurs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).