Comments on: Texas’s Accomplice Witness Rule https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/texass-accomplice-witness-rule Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Mickey Fox https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/texass-accomplice-witness-rule#comment-7588 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:14:44 +0000 http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2010/09/texass-accomplice-witness-rule.html#comment-7588 Mark you make a good point: Don’t show your hand until you have to show your hand. I am amazed at how many times really good results have come about by developing my witness examination step by step rather than rushing to the (Perry Mason-like) Aha! moment.

Patience as you have demonstrated, is a necessary virtue in defense.

]]> By: Mark Bennett https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/texass-accomplice-witness-rule#comment-7587 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:11:20 +0000 http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2010/09/texass-accomplice-witness-rule.html#comment-7587 In reply to Murray Newman.

Here, a little last-minute coaching of her star witness by the prosecutor might have made the difference between getting the instruction and not.

]]> By: Murray Newman https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/texass-accomplice-witness-rule#comment-7586 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:56:36 +0000 http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2010/09/texass-accomplice-witness-rule.html#comment-7586 I’m surprised you didn’t voir dire on it, even if you weren’t 100% confident. I think that the questioning from the defense voir dire is a great way to identify veniremembers who might fudge a little when holding the State to its burden.

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