Gaytan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that trial court reasonably could have found that evidence of similar extraneous offenses had inherent probative force
• noting that evidence that defendant sexually abused other children is relevant to issue of whether he abused victim alleged in indictment
• explaining that trial court could have determined that “inherent probative force was significantly reduced” where evidence showed that extraneous offenses occurred 28 and 24 years before trial
• stating that trial court reasonably could have found that evidence of similar extraneous offenses had inherent probative force
• providing that the lack of physical evidence may be a basis for needing evidence of extraneous offenses
• concluding that offense occurring four-to-six months earlier had probative value

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).