Robert Burke v. State

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• holding that evidence of the appellant’s previous molestations of the complainant was probative of their relationship
• holding mother’s testimony that defendant was a “good boy” and “I know my son’s heart, and I know he didn’t do this” constituted opinion character testimony
• holding the extraneous sexual assaults of the complainant by the appellant was probative of their relationship and increased the probability he would have felt confident to assault the complainant again
• applying abuse of discretion standard of review to alleged error in permitting prosecutor to propound “did-you-know” questions on cross-examination of defendant’s mother who had testified for defense as a character witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).