Second Court of Appeals

Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued - Week of March 22, 2021.

NOTE: Summaries are prepared by the court's staff attorneys and law clerks for public information only and reflect his or her interpretation alone of the facts and legal issues. The summaries are not part of the court's opinion in the case and should not be cited to, quoted, or relied upon as the opinion of the court.

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Comp-E-Ware Tech. Assocs., Inc. v. Mushkin, Inc., No. 02-20-00185-CV (Mar. 25, 2021) (Wallach, J., joined by Kerr and Bassel, JJ.).

Held: The trial court abused its discretion by not staying Appellee’s claims against Appellant because those claims are subject to arbitration previously ordered by the 44th District Court of Dallas County, the court with dominant jurisdiction.

Redmond v. State, No. 02-19-00381-CR (Mar. 25, 2021) (Wallach, J., joined by Birdwell and Bassel, JJ.).

Held: The trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evidence of Appellant’s abusive extramarital affair to rebut his defensive theory that his wife’s injuries were the result of an accident. Nor did the trial court abuse its discretion by admitting evidence of Appellant’s three extraneous bank robberies to correct the false impression that Appellant’s fourth bank robbery was a singular incident. And any error in the admission of hearsay testimony summarizing the complainant’s statements to law enforcement was rendered harmless by the admission of other evidence establishing the same underlying facts.