Peter Alan Werner, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction, holding that the trial court did not err in excluding the appellant's testimony about his family’s Holocaust background and the expert's "Holocaust syndrome" evidence because it was not relevant to any contested issue, particularly self‑defense. The majority found no abuse of discretion and rejected the appellant’s arguments on relevance, self‑defense statutory elements, and the application of McClure. A dissent argued the evidence should have been admitted under §19.06.