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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 21 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Lydia v. State.

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1 Lydia v. State Anchor
texcrimapp · 2003
green “do each of you feel as though you could evaluate a witness and his testimony and decide if he's being truthful without automatically dismissing his testimony because of some criminal history?” 9
2 Staley v. State
texcrimapp · 1994
green “competent, fair, impartial, and unprejudiced jury to judge the facts of the case.” 4
3 Harris v. State
texapp · 2003
green “a challenge for cause is only proper based on bias if a prospective juror harbors an automatic predisposition toward one view of witness credibility based upon knowledge of a certain fact about the witness.” 4
4 Lydia v. State
texapp · 2002
green “do each of you feel as though you could evaluate a witness and his testimony and decide if he's being truthful without automatically dismissing his testimony because of some criminal history?” 4

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