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Robles v. State

Citations

  • 85 S.W.3d 211
  • 2002 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 97
  • 2002 WL 893213

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  • holding that in prosecution for third or subsequent DWI, State was required to accept stipulation that defendant had two prior convictions rather than offer proof of prior convictions
  • holding that in prosecution for third or subsequent DWI, State was required to accept stipulation that defendant had two prior convictions rather than offer proof of prior convictions
  • holding that in prosecution for third or subsequent DWI, State was required to accept stipulation that defendant had two prior convictions rather than offer proof of prior convictions
  • holding it is error to admit evidence of prior convictions over offer to stipulate to jurisdictional priors because of the danger of unfair prejudice
  • explaining that policy, embodied in Texas Rule of Evidence 404(b) and bifurcated trial procedure, “addresses [court’s] concern that conviction not be based on the assumption that the accused is a criminal generally or that he is a person of bad character”
  • discussing whether convictions could be introduced into evidence at the guilt stage of the trial, but not addressing whether the jury may be informed of the stipulation or whether the stipulation itself may be admitted into evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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