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Criminal Law Keyed to Weaver
Hopson v. Texas
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Karissa Lou Hopson (Defendant) was arrested after police found her standing on the front porch of a house, holding a television. When the police arrived, they saw that the house’s windows were broken and that Defendant had blood on her shirt and hand. There was also damage to the inside of the house. Defendant was subsequently charged with burglary. Defendant testified that she picked up the television because she believed she was stopping a burglary in progress, not because she intended to commit a burglary. Defendant said that she had gone by the house and found a man taking things out of the house. In fact, the owners had given the man permission to go inside and pick up some of his belongings. Defendant testified that the man left after she confronted him, and that she then found the television sitting outside. Believing that the man had taken the television out of the house as part of a burglary, Defendant picked up the television to put it back in the house. Defendant maintained that her intention was not to commit a burglary, but to prevent one.
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