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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 14 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 Celis, Mauricio Rodriguez.

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1 Celis, Mauricio Rodriguez Anchor
texcrimapp · 2013
green “a defendant is entitled to an instruction on any defensive issue raised by the evidence, whether that evidence is weak or strong, unimpeached or uncontradicted, and regardless of how the trial court views the credibility of the defense.” 7
2 Juarez v. State
texcrimapp · 2010
green “the defendant bears the burden of showing that each element of the defense has been satisfied.” 4
3 Bill Boyd Kuhn v. State
texapp · 2013
green “the issue of the existence of a defense is not submitted to the jury unless evidence is admitted supporting the defense,” 3

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