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Lane v. State

Citations

  • 933 S.W.2d 504
  • 1996 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 225
  • 1996 WL 649142

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that many similarities between charged and extraneous offenses made extraneous offense evidence highly probative under Rule 403
  • holding confession voluntary when defendant was allowed to smoke and interrogation style was “low key” and nonconfrontational
  • noting that impermissible inference of character conformity can be minimized through limiting instruction
  • factor weighed in favor of admission where extraneous-offense testimony amounted to “less than one-fifth” of trial testimony
  • factor weighed in favor of admission where extraneous-offense testimony amounted to \less than one-fifth\ of trial testimony
  • “[T]he impermissible inference of character conformity can be minimized through a limiting instruction.”

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Judges: Keller, Mansfield, Baird, Maloney, Meyers, Clinton, Overstreet

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Cites

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