Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas February 11, 2009, PD-0363-08 (Pollard v. State)

OPINION

HERVEY, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court

in which KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

We granted discretionary review in this case to address whether the “victim’s knowledge of [appellant’s] violent past” was relevant in this retaliation-by-threat case.

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We decide that this evidence was not relevant.