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Category: Crimes Against Children | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Assault
Outcry testimony is frequently used in child sexual abuse cases in Texas. For years, the statutory procedural rules governing outcry testimony have worked like this: Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. art. 38.072(b) §2(a)(1), (2) carved out an exception to the…
More than four decades ago, the First District Court of Appeals, based in Houston, defined an extraneous offense as: “… any act or misconduct, whether resulting in prosecution or not, which is not shown in the charging instrument and which …
Category: Police Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Assault
Since 2016, the Houston Police Department (HPD) has received 2.8 million crime reports. During part of those eight years, HPD used a code called “Suspended – Lack of Personnel” to “suspend” investigations into as many as 264,000 crime reports.
While…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Assault
The rules of evidence generally prohibit the use of crimes, wrongs, or other bad acts to prove a person’s character to show that a person acted accordingly on a particular occasion. This rule assures that the person accused is tried…
Most people associate sexual assault with rape. Under the Texas law, however, sexual assault covers both non-consensual sexual acts and consensual ones.
That means a person can be charged with sexual assault even if they have what they believe…
Category: Assault | Sexual Assault
The terms assault and sexual assault are likely create two stark pictures. The truth, however, is that while they are two separate acts, these crimes under Texas laws do have some overlap.
Here’s what you need to know about…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault | Super Sexual Assault
Texas doesn’t mess around with sex crimes. Legislators have created different levels of offenses to maximize the potential punishment to perpetrators, including super aggravated sexual assault.
This charge recently came to light in a number of recent cases in…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
Justice is sometimes blind to justice.
Justice was indeed blind in the Brandon Lee Moon case. He served 17 years in prison as a sex offender for a crime he did not commit.
Moon was convicted in January…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
Manhattan federal prosecutors recently opened an investigation into the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. This is in addition to the sex crime charges he currently faces in state courts in New York, Los Angeles, and London.
The investigation began…
Category: Sexual Assault
A recent case reveals how Texas law employs harsher punishments for sexual assault in marriage.
How exactly does that work?
Here is the case in question:
A man received a sexual assault conviction for having sex with…
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