Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 2011

Woodall, Phyllis Anne

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided March 2, 2011

Opinion

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. PD 1379-09

PHYLLIS ANNE WOODALL, Appellant v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

FROM THE EIGHTH COURT OF APPEALS

EL PASO COUNTY

C OCHRAN, J., filed a concurring opinion in which H ERVEY, J., joined.

OPINION

I join the majority opinion with the understanding that this case will be remanded for the court of appeals to address appellant’s remaining, unresolved issue of whether the State carried its burden to establish a proper foundation for admitting Ms. Pinedo’s prior grand- jury testimony into evidence after she had left the witness stand. The estoppel doctrine does not apply to that question because the proponent of evidence bears the burden of establishing the foundation requirements for admitting evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule once the opponent makes a proper objection.1

Filed: March 2, 2011

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1 Taylor v. State, 268 S.W.3d 571, 578-79 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008) (“Once the opponent of hearsay evidence makes the proper objection, it becomes the burden of the proponent of the evidence to establish that an exception applies that would make the evidence admissible in spite of its hearsay character.”); Martinez v. State, 178 S.W.3d 806, 815 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).

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