Mendez 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 if defendant fails to object to absence of “defense-benefitting instructions” in jury charge, “the trial court will have committed no error at all” by failing to submit such instructions
• noting the Posey court said Article 36.14 of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure imposes no “duty on trial courts to sua sponte instruct the jury on unrequested defensive issues” such as mistake of fact
• whether defendant objected to error simply determines which of Almanza’s dual standards of review applies to determine whether error is reversible
• trial court must “deliver to the jury . . . a written charge distinctly setting forth the law applicable to the case.”
• “we have found jury- charge error where a trial court fails to apply its abstract charge on self-defense to the particular facts of the case at hand”
• “[A] trial court does not err 6 Durham’s charge objections were as follows: 24 by failing to instruct the jury on an issue that was, by virtue of the defendant’s silence, simply inapplicable to the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

124 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rebecca Plumlee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2018-06-28
• Markailon Adrell Dailey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-07-16
• Kathryn L. Preston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2018-07-18
• Jessie Alexander Luna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-07-20
• Sosimo Gonzalez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2018-08-15
• Rylee Carl Eklund v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2018-10-18
• William Frank Bane v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-12-11
• Tyrece D'Andre Harris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2019-01-23
• Barbara Galindo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-02-12
• Jesus Gonzalez, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-03-21
• Rodney Collins Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-04-15
• Jose Reynaldo Zamora Banegas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-07-24
• Tyler Christian Green v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-08-06
• in the Matter of M.S., a Juvenile
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2019-08-08
• Willie Maurice Hervey, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-08-08
• Lisa Ann Barfield v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-08-29
• Jose Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2019-08-30
• Colby Ray Williamson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-10-02
• Travis Marpoe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-10-10
• Tradezsha Bibbs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-12-05

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Delgado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 707×
• Posey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 696×
• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-03· cited 316×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-15· cited 256×
• Vega, Jose Luis Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-20· cited 213×
• Tolbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-03-17· cited 177×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 158×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-30· cited 127×
• Barrera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-10-07· cited 120×
• Alonzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 91×
• Perez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-09· cited 52×
• Fennell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-03-06· cited 38×
• Ex Parte Chandler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 21×
• Mendez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-04-04· cited 9×