Court Refused to Let Man Argue Obvious Defense at Trial

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-26 03:52:27 | Updated at 2024-12-26 16:38:15 12 hours ago

Court Refused to Let Man Argue Obvious Defense at Trial
Lehto's Law ^ | November 5, 2022 | Steve Lehto

Posted on 12/25/2024 7:51:14 PM PST by xxqqzz

welcome once again to Leo's law here's Steve leato Ronnie sent me notes that Steve check out this case out of tax ass 0:07 going to blow your mind and my mind was blown okay this is going to be a longer video but trust me it's worth it because 0:14 you've got a crazy crazy set of facts where a man got charged with a crime and 0:20 when he went to court the prosecutors asked the judge they said your honor this guy wants to raise some defenses we 0:26 don't think he should be allowed to raise them and so we want a motion eliminate I'll explain that in a second to prevent him from raising a couple 0:33 particular defenses and the trial judge said okay now 0:39 usually if you make a ruling like that you have a hearing first where you actually ask the defense which of these 0:45 arguments are you going to use if any and do you have any evidence to back them up and if you do then you're allowed to use them I if the prosecution 0:53 can simply walk in the court and say your honor we've decided not to let them use these defenses and the judge goes 0:58 okay um how is that a fair trial that's not how it works but this is not even 1:05 from a news story because Ronnie sent me the link to the opinion okay and the opinion is by the 1:14 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas so this is the opinion on appeal this case has what we call tortured history it's

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: burglary

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Old story and from youtube. Almost a million views. Man convicted of burglary and aggravated assault and gets 40 years. Judge ruled that he couldn't present evidence of self defense. Texas Supreme Court gives him new trial. Not sure what happened with new trial.

Defendant claimed he was having an affair with the homeowner's wife and she asked him to feed the cats, which she had done before. He had the key to the house and the passcode. Claims the husband came in and he did in a closet. Claims husband was holding a knife and he shot husband with a gun that was in the closet.

Story seems weird, but also weird that he was a burglar. However, he wasn't allowed to present it to the jury.

Maybe got harsher sentence for pleading not guilty. Seems like he was railroaded by judge and prosecutor.

1 posted on 12/25/2024 7:51:14 PM PST by xxqqzz

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