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Villa v. State

Citations

  • 417 S.W.3d 455
  • 2013 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1655
  • 2013 WL 5925764

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming that counsel’s alleged deficiency “must be affirmatively demonstrated in the trial record”
  • “As such, a defendant claiming entitlement to an instruction on [a confession-and-avoidance] defense must admit to each element of the offense, including both the act and the requisite mental state.”
  • “The medical-care defense is one of confession and avoidance. As such, a defendant claiming entitlement to an instruction on the medical-care defense must admit to each element of the offense, including both the act and the requisite mental state.”
  • “If the defensive evidence does no more than attempt to negate an element of the offense, a defendant is not entitled to a defensive instruction on any defense that is subject to the doctrine of confession and avoidance.”
  • “[C]ounsel’s alleged deficiency must be affirmatively demonstrated in the trial record.”
  • “[C]ounsel’s alleged deficiency must be affirmatively demonstrated in the trial record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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