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Fischer v. State

Citations

  • 252 S.W.3d 375
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 5
  • 2008 WL 141850

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

  • holding that rule 803(1) was not applicable when the officer did not merely explain or describe events but participated in and created the events in his recorded observations
  • holding that rule 803(1) was not applicable when the officer did not merely explain or describe events but participated in and created the events in his recorded observations
  • holding that rule 803(1) was not applicable when the officer did not merely explain or describe events but participated in and created the events in his recorded observations
  • recognizing that “res gestae,” literally translated as “things done,” is “an imprecise Latin legalese term” which has been used to describe several different types of “unreflective statements” which are hearsay exceptions under the rules of evidence
  • stating that 803(1) is “predicated on the notion that the utterance is a reflex product of immediate sensual impressions, unaided by retrospective mental processes”
  • stating that 803(1) is “predicated on the notion that the utterance is a reflex product of immediate sensual impressions, unaided by retrospective mental processes”

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Judges: Cochran, Price, Womack, Johnson, Holcomb, Hervey, Keller, Meyers, Keasler

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