Torres v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there must be some evidence of aggression by the deceased during the events that gave rise to the criminal charges in the case before the defendant may introduce evidence of a prior specific violent act that tends to explain the deceased’s later conduct
• explaining that a defendant may introduce evidence of a deceased’s violent character to support self-defense or specific acts of violence “to demonstrate the reasonableness of the defendant’s fear of danger or to demonstrate that the deceased was the first aggressor”
• “The proper predicate for the specific violent prior act by the deceased is some act of aggression that tends to raise the issue of self-defense, which the violent act may then help clarify.”
• before defendant may introduce evidence of prior specific act that tends to explain decedent’s later conduct, there must be some evidence of aggression by deceased during events that gave rise to criminal charges in case
• “For Diane’s testimony to be admissible at the time it was offered, there must have been evidence of an act of aggression by the deceased that tends to raise the issue of self defense.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ex Parte Miller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-22· cited 142×
• Rodney Wayne Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-04· cited 28×
• Alex Molina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-30· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-11-09· cited 14×
• Zachariah Harvey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-26
• Henry Gonzales, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-12-04
• Benny Ray Cazares, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-09-20
• Ceyma Bina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-01-31
• Eric Joel Aleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-08-27
• Jackie Deeshawn Welch, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-08-12
• A'Drana Gooden Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-11-09
• Paul Poston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2004-04-01
• Ronnie Wortham v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2004-09-30
• in the Matter of C.R.G.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-09-20
• Garza, Manuel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-02-16
• Miller, Ex Parte Carl Eddie
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-10-28
• Levi Barriere v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-08-27
• Gordon Lee Currin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-08-27
• Wesley Lee Hill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-06-25
• Artis Leon Polk Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-04-23

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-03· cited 443×
• Tate v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-12-09· cited 120×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-14· cited 72×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-11-25· cited 7×