Villarreal, Rene Daniel

OPINION

This case addresses whether a defendant has suffered egregious harm from the erroneous omission of a jury instruction that would have required the jury to apply a presumption of reasonableness as to his belief that the use of deadly force was immediately necessary to protect himself. See Tex. Penal Code § 9.32(b). The State raises this question in its petition for discretionary review, in which it challenges the court of appeals’s reversal of the murder conviction of Rene Daniel Villarreal, appellant, based on the conclusion that he was egregiously harmed by the trial court’s omission…