Our opinion and judgment issued on January 10, 2002 are withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted.
A jury convicted appellant Jeffrey Walter Stefanoff of possessing four ounces or more but less than five pounds of marihuana. See Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. §. 481.121 (West Supp.2002). The trial court sentenced him to one year’s confine *499 ment, probated for two years, and imposed a $2,500 fíne, $1,500 being probated. As a condition of appellant’s рrobation, the trial court ordered him to enter the substance abuse felony punishment program and, prior to entry into such program, required appellant to serve seven days in jail as a detoxification period. By six points of error, appellant challenges his conviction and sentence. In one counterpoint, the State challenges the trial court’s submission of appellant’s nеcessity defense to the jury. We affirm the trial court’s judgment and sentence as modified.
BACKGROUND FACTS
While flying over appellant’s property in a helicopter during a “domestic marijuana eradication” operation, police discovered appellant growing marihuana. After obtaining and executing a search warrant, police recovered fifteen marihuana plants belonging to appellant. A search of his residence revealed no other drug paraphernalia or contraband. The marihuana confiscated from appellant weighed 2.16 pounds.
Appellant stipulated to committing the offense of possession of marihuana of four ounces or more but less than five pounds. See Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 481.121. Pursuant to Penal Code section 9.22, appellant asserted the defense of necessity. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 9.22 (West 1994). Appellant claimed that, as a result of his post-traumatic stress disorder, it was necessary for him to possess and smoke marihuana to contain the adverse symptoms associated with his disorder. The State objected to appellant’s use of the necessity defense. The trial court, however, overruled the State’s objections and submitted the issue to the jury. The jury found appellant guilty. At appellant’s election, the trial court assessed his punishment. Appellant appeals both his conviction and sentence.
DISCUSSION
By his first point of error, appellant challenges the factual sufficiency of the State’s evidence to overcome his necessity defense. The State responds by asserting one counterpoint of error, contending that the trial cоurt committed error by instructing the jury on appellant’s necessity defense. Before we pass upon the factual sufficiency of the State’s evidence to rebut appellant’s necessity defense, we first determine whether appellant was entitled to a jury instruction on necessity.
A defendant is generally entitled to a jury instruction on every claimed defensive issue so long as the evidence adduced at trial is sufficient to raise each element of the defense.
See Granger v. State,
Necessity is a statutory defense that exonerates a person’s otherwise illegal conduct. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 9.22. Conduct is justified by necessity if:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm;
(2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and
(3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.
Id.
The defendant has the initial burden of producing evidence regarding the necessity defense. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 2.03(c) (1994). If the defendant adduces evidence, regardless of source and strength, raising every element of the defense, then the burden shifts to the State to disprove the defense beyond a reasonable doubt.
Id.
§ 2.03(d);
Thomas v. State,
The State contends that, because appellant failed to present any evidence regarding his possession of marihuana on the day of the offense, appellant failed to meet his initial burden of producing evidence to raise the “immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm” element. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 9.22(1). Appellant argues that his testimony and that of his treating psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Hochman, 1 regarding appellant’s medical need to use marihuana to control rage, depression, anxiety, and nervousness associated with appellant’s post-traumatic stress disorder, 2 satisfy the imminent harm requirement of section 9.22. 3
Section 9.22(1) requires the defendant to first bring forth evidence of a specific imminent harm.
Id.; Johnson v. State,
Appellant asserts his evidence establishes “that [post-traumatic stress disorder] has a variety of symptoms, some sudden and severe, so that possession of marijuana at all times
could
be necessary to avoid them.” (Emphasis added.) But more than a generalized fear of harm is required to raise the issue of imminent harm.
Brazelton v. State,
Even if appellant properly raised the element of imminent harm, we find the State refuted the immediate necessity element beyond a reasonable doubt. After adducing evidence оf imminent harm, a defendant must next establish facts indicating a
reasonable belief
that the criminal conduct was
immediately necessary
to avoid the imminent harm. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 9.22(1). “Reasonable belief’ means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent person in the same circumstances as the defendant.
Id.
§ 1.07(a)(42). Reasonableness is determined from the defendant’s viewpoint at the time of the conduct.
See Fitzgerald v. State,
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Appellant’s second point of error challenges the trial judge’s ruling denying his requested instruction that “[t]he jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under direction of this Court.” Although jury nullification is a recognized part of our judicial system, there is no constitutiоnal requirement that a trial judge instruct the jury on nullification.
Mouton v. State,
Appellant cites the Texas Constitution for the proposition that a right to jury nullification does exist.
See
Tex. Const, art. I, § 8. Specifically, he relies on the last clause of the last sentence, stating, “And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court,
as in other cases.” Id.
(emphasis added). We reject appellant’s argument that this supports a constitutional right to a nullificatiоn instruction. Appellant takes this statement out of context.
4
Finding no plausible support for appellant’s contention, we follow the line of federal cases rejecting a defendant’s constitutional right to a jury nullification instruction. We agree with our sister court that, “while jury nullification may exist as a part of our justice system, it is not a legal standard and is not a constitutional right of the defendant. The court’s duty is tо instruct the jury on the law, and the trial court in the instant case complied with that duty.”
Mouton,
By appellant’s third point of error, he argues that the trial court erred in admitting evidence relating to the amount and value of the marihuana discovered and that the admission of such evidence prejudiced his medical necessity defense. Appellant urges this Court to consider that, because he stipulated to the amount of marihuana found, no further evidence concerning the quantity of marihuana was necessary. We review the erroneous ad
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mission of evidence using an abuse of discretion standard.
See Wyatt v. State,
The State presented testimony comparing the quantity of marihuana appellant used daily with the amount of marihuanа his plants could produce. A narcotics officer also testified to the monetary street value of the marihuana in appellant’s possession, concluding that the number of plants found in appellant’s possession was inconsistent with personal use. Appellant objected to this testimony, asserting that, absent distribution charges and the State’s failure to provide notice of possible priоr bad acts testimony, the testimony was inadmissible under rule 404(b). See Tex.R. Evid. 404(b). The State responded that because appellant failed to request notice of the State’s intent to use this evidence, he waived any rule 404(b) objection and that, in any event, its use of evidence regarding the amount of marihuana found was proper to rebut appellant’s medical necessity defense. 5 The trial court overruled appellant’s objections regarding the admissibility of this evidence. However, the court sustained appellant’s objections to the State’s attempt to elicit testimony that appellant’s arrest interrupted his commercial operation.
A reviewing court must ascertain the probable effect admitting evidence has on the jury’s verdict and should not overturn a criminal conviction if, after examining the record as whole, the court “has fair assurance that the error did not influence the jury, or had but a slight effect.”
Johnson v. State,
In his fourth and fifth points of error, appellant challenges his probation conditions. By point of error four, appellant argues that by ordering him into the substance abuse felony punishment program, the trial court failed to consider appellant’s medical diagnosis and his prescription use of marinol. We employ an abuse of discretion standard in examining conditions of probation.
Dellinger v. State,
During the sentencing phase, appellant objected to any inpatient treatment program because, “[gjiven the fact that [appellant] has a prescription for THC, [it] seems ... rather impossible to be given THC and be on a drug treatment plan to get one off THC.” The trial court acknowledged that it was a “knotty problem.” In fashioning “its own program,” the trial court ordered appellant committed to the substance abuse рrogram and further ordered “that he be allowed to take his duly-prescribed medications, whether it includes Marinol, or whatever it might be.” From the record, it is clear that the trial court considered appellant’s medical diagnosis and fashioned its order to account for appellant’s prescription of marinol. The only order objectionable to appellant was that he “ceаse and desist from the use of marijuana by smoking.” Under these circumstances, we cannot say the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing appellant to the substance abuse program.
In his fifth point of error, appellant contends that, because he was entitled to mandatory probation under the statute by which he was indicted, the trial judge’s order incarcerating him for seven days prior to beginning the substance abuse program was erroneous. Appellant’s argument is without merit. Appellant’s actual sentence of one year confinement was probated for two years. The requirement that he spend seven days in jail as a detoxification period was a condition of probation and of the substance abuse program, not of the one year imprisonment. See 37 Tex. Admin. Code § 159.1 (2001). We hold thаt the trial court did not abuse its discretion in setting appellant’s probation conditions. We overrule points of error four and five.
Finally, in his sixth point of error, appellant contends that the judgment incorrectly reflected an affirmative deadly weapon finding. The judgment reflects an affirmative deadly weapon finding but the record shows no support for such a finding. At oral argument, the State concedеd error on this point. Therefore, we modify the judgment to reflect a negative deadly weapon finding and sustain appellant’s sixth point of error.
CONCLUSION
We sustain the State’s counterpoint of error and appellant’s sixth point of error and modify the judgment to remove the deadly weapon finding. Appellant’s points of error one through five are overruled. The conviction is modified and, as modified, affirmed.
Notes
. Dr. Hochman did not begin treating appellant until after the State indicted appellant for marihuana possession on October 9, 1997.
. Dr. Hochman was the first person to diagnose appellant as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The record indicates that appellant developed post-traumatic stress disorder after he authorized the termination of life support for his wife who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident.
. According to appellant,
[t]he State was required to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt two prongs of the necessity justification:
(1) that Stefanoff reasonably believed his conduct was immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; and
(2) that the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought tо be prevented by the marijuana laws.
This argument is without merit because it (i) erroneously creates a conjunctive burden on the State to disprove each element of the necessity defense and' (ii) incorrectly presumes that appellant met his initial burden of putting forth some evidence to support his defense.
. In its entirety, article I, section 8 reads:
Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall hаve the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Tex. Const, art. I, § 8.
. Appellant argues in his brief that "[a] Rule 403 analysis of the objectionable evidence in the case at bar favors the defendant.” However, because appellant cites no place in the record where he objected to the evidence relying on rule 403, and we could find no such objection, he failed to preserve this asserted error for appeal. See Tex.R.App. P. 33.1(a).