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Moore v. State

Citations

  • 868 S.W.2d 787
  • 1993 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 186
  • 1993 WL 481845

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  • holding court must assume that Legislature was aware of prior decisions when it amended the statute
  • assuming that the legislature is aware of preexisting judicial opinions in a particular area when legislating in that area
  • precluding the defendant from stating matter inadmissible in evidence is not trial court error
  • it is not error for trial court to preclude defendant –10– from making argumentative and prejudicial remarks in his favor during his opening statement
  • “Article 36.01 sets out the order of proceeding in any criminal action involving a jury[.]”
  • while defendant has right to make opening statement on matters prescribed by statute, it is not error for trial court to preclude him from stating matter inadmissible in evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Meyers, Clinton, Overstreet, Maloney

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