Rogelio Delacerda v. State

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• holding that venire member can be challenged for cause if she “has a bias or prejudice against any phase of the law upon which the State is entitled to rely” for conviction or punishment
• holding that a witness’s statement, made during a photospread identification, that the person he saw was “in the back of the truck and not [ ] the shooter” was admissible as a statement of identification under Rule 801(e)(1)(C)
• noting that the appellant voluntarily went with officers into police station to homicide division office for questioning and merely being questioned at stationhouse, by itself, does not constitute custody
• neither presence at scene, nor failure to disclose knowledge of planned offense, nor concealing offense “turn a witness into an accomplice witness”
• after court presumed trial court erred in charging jury on doctrine of transferred intent, defendant could not demonstrate “the result of the trial would have been different”
• “A trial court has no duty to instruct the jury that a witness is an accomplice witness as a 23 matter of law ‘unless there exists no doubt that the witness is an accomplice.’”

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