Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

In conviction for retaliation by "intentionally or knowingly" threatening to hurt much younger friend on account of friend's service "as a prospective witness", decision that criminal-appellant's 1986 murder conviction was inadmissible to show appellant's motive for threatening younger friend is affirmed where the evidence that appellant had actually killed a person, standing alone, did not make any fact of consequence more or less probable in this retaliation-by-threat prosecution.

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• Decided 02/11/2009
• Published 02/11/2009

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• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

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