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Pierson, Leonard Jr.

Citations

  • 426 S.W.3d 763
  • 2014 WL 1375459
  • 2014 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 539

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the appellant, as the proponent of the evidence, failed to carry his burden to establish its admissibility, and therefore the evidence was inadmissible
  • holding that the appellant, as the proponent of the evidence, failed to carry his burden to establish its admissibility, and therefore the evidence was inadmissible
  • holding that appellant, as proponent of evidence, failed to carry burden to establish its admissibility, and therefore evidence was inadmissible
  • concluding trial court did not abuse its discretion in declaring mistrial where trial counsel hoped more than intended that objectionable question would lead to admissible evidence
  • confirming no abuse of discretion where trial court prohibited cross-examination regarding complainant’s alleged 7 The Rule itself contains an exception where the witness has been convicted of a crime. See Tex. R. Evid. 608(b
  • noting “great deference should be accorded to the ruling of a court granting a mistrial [when it] turned on the trial judge’s unique ability to evaluate whether the complained of action biased the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hervey, Keller, Meyers, Price, Keasler, Cochran, Alcala, Womack, Johnson

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