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Hernandez v. State

Citations

  • 161 S.W.3d 491
  • 2005 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 268
  • 2005 WL 485278

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  • noting that a fact finder may disbelieve some or all of a witness’s testimony even when that testimony is not contradicted
  • stating that to be entitled to entrapment instruction, defendant must produce prima facie case of each element of entrapment defense
  • declaring that State has no burden to disprove entrapment defense until it is raised before the jury
  • noting that entrapment issues are appropriate for jury resolution “because the jury has a ‘particular claim to competence’ on the question of what temptations would be too great for an ordinary law-abiding citizen”
  • stating that in the burden-shifting context, entrapment behaves like self-defense
  • stating that in the burden-shifting context, entrapment behaves like self-defense

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Judges: Cochran

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