Court Opinion

ID: 9775482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:00:32.362328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:26.964150
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HARRY HOPKINS, Justice, (Retired),
concurring and dissenting.
I concur in the majority opinion which holds that the judgment and sentence must be reversed. I would remand for a new trial on punishment only due to error by the trial court in admitting evidence, during the punishment phase of the trial, of extraneous sexual offenses involving the appellant and a witness, other than the complaining witness, and such witness and a male adult.
However, I respectfully disagree and dissent from that portion of the majority opinion that finds reversible error in the trial court admitting evidence of extraneous sexual offenses involving appellant and the complaining witness after appellant’s attack on the credibility of the complaining witness. Such evidence was, in my view, admissible under the decision in Montgomery v. State, 810 S.W.2d 372 (Tex.Crim.App.1990).