Eduardo Palomo Medina v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• “A district court certainly retains the power to preclude closing arguments on defense theories that are not supported by the evidence.”
• “Judicial estoppel prevents a party from taking a contrary position ‘where a party assumes a certain position in a legal proceeding, and succeeds in maintaining that position.’ ” (quoting New Hamp- shire v. Maine, 532 U.S. 742, 749 (2001))
• “[S]uch an error is structural and requires reversal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).