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Listed below are provisions and topics from Baker's Texas Criminal Evidence Handbook addressed in recent opinions of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Each provision listed will lead you to one or more relevant casenotes derived from those recent opinions. Those casenotes, in turn, are linked to the text of those opinions. For links to casesnotes supplementing other handbooks, see the Main Casenotes Listing. If you already know the name of a particular recent case of interest, you may go directly to that opinion from the Table of Recent Opinions.

• CCP Art. 14.01. Offense Within View
• CCP Art. 14.03. Authority of Peace Officer
• CCP Art. 14.04. When Felony Has Been Committed
• CCP Art. 14.05. Rights of Officer
• Texas Const. on Arrest without Warrant
• Cases on Approach
• Cases on Stop & Detention
• Cases on Frisk
• Cases on Arrest without Warrant
• Cases on Lawful Arrest without Warrant
• Cases on Unlawful Arrest without Warrant
• Cases on Fruits of Arrest
• Cases on Authority of Officer
• Cases on Arrest under Warrant
• CCP Art. 18.01. Search Warrant
• CCP Art. 18.10. How Return Made
• Search & Seizure, Presenting Issue
• Search & Seizure, Waiver Factors
• Search & Seizure, Role of Appeals Court
• Search & Seizure, Constitutional Rules
• Search & Seizure, Standing & Expectation of Privacy
• Consent to Search
• Plain View Doctrine
• What Is a Search
• Search & Seziure Rules
• Affidavit for Search Warrant, No Error
• Search Under Warrant, No Error
• Search Without Warrant, No Error
• Search Under Warrant, Error
• Search under Emergency Circumstances
• Protective Search
• Illegal Search & Seizure & Harmless Error Doctrine
• CCP Art. 24.05. Refusing to Obey
• CCP Art. 24.12. When Attachment May Issue
• CCP Art. 38.05. Judge Shall Not Discuss Evidence
• CCP Art. 38.07. Testimony in Corroboration of Victim of Sexual Offense
• CCP Art. 38.071. Testimony of Child Who is Victim of Offense
• CCP Art. 38.072. Hearsay Statement of Child Abuse Victim
• CCP Art. 38.08. Defendant May Testify
• CCP Art. 38.14. Testimony of Accomplice
• CCP Art. 38.22: Confession of Defendant
• CCP Art. 38.23. Evidence Not to be Used
• CCP Art. 38.30. Interpreter
• CCP Art. 38.36. Evidence in Prosecutions for Murder
• CCP Art. 38.37. Evidence of Extraneous Offenses or Acts
• CCP Art. 39.14. Discovery
• Non-Statutory cases on Discovery
• Identification Testimony
• Right of Confrontation
• Evidence under CCP Art. 37.07, Sec. 3
• Sufficiency of Evidence Rules
• Rule 101. Title and Scope
• Rule 102. Purpose and Construction
• Rule 103. Rulings of Evidence
• Rule 104. Preliminary Questions
• Rule 105. Limited Admissibility
• Rule 107. Rule of Optional Completeness
• Preserving Evidence Issues
• Rule 201. Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts
• Rule 402. Relevant Evidence Generally Admissible; Irrelevant Evidence Inadmissible
• Rule 403. Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Special Grounds
• Rule 404. Character Evidence not Admissible to Prove Conduct; Exceptions; Other Crimes
• Rule 405. Methods of Proving Character
• Rule 410. Inadmissibility of Pleas, Plea Discussions and Related Statements
• Rule 412. Evidence of Previous Sexual Conduct
• Rule 503. Lawyer-Client Privilege
• Rule 504. Husband-Wife Privileges
• Rule 505. Communications to Clergymen
• Rule 601. Competency and Incompetency of Witnesses
• Rule 602. Lack of Personal Knowledge
• Rule 607. Who May Impeach
• Rule 608. Evidence of Character and Conduct of Witness
• Rule 609. Impeachment by Evidence of Conviction of Crime
• Rule 611. Mode and Order of Interrogation and Presentation
• Rule 613. Prior Statements of Witnesses; Impeachment and Support
• Rule 614. Exclusion of Witnesses
• Presenting Evidence
• Rule 701. Opinion Testimony by Lay Witnesses
• Rule 702. Testimony by Experts
• Rule 703. Bases of Opinion Testimony by Experts
• Rule 704. Opinion on Ultimate Issues
• Rule 705. Disclosure of Facts or Data Underlying Expert Opinion
• Polygraph Evidence
• Rule 801. Definitions
• Rule 802. Hearsay Rule
• Rule 803. Hearsay Exceptions: Availability of Declarant Immaterial
• Rule 804. Hearsay Exceptions: Declarant Unavailable
• Rule 806. Attacking and Supporting Credibility of Declarant
• Rule 901. Requirement of Authentication or Identification
• Rule 1003. Admissibility of Duplicates
• Rule 1004. Admissibility of Other Evidence of Contents