Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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1. “You are instructed that there is testimony before you in this case regarding the defendant having committed an act other than the offense alleged against him in the indictment in this case. This is called an extraneous act. You cannot consider testimony of extraneous acts for any purposes unless you first find and believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed any such extraneous acts and even then, you may only consider the same in determining the previous and subsequent relationship that existed between the defendant and the child, A.B., if any, and for no other purpose. Now, bearing in mind the foregoing instructions, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant, on or about [th] 15th day of October 2000, in the County of Brazo-ria, State of Texas, as alleged in the indictment, did then and there intentionally or knowingly cause the sexual organ of [A.B.], a child younger than seventeen (17) years of age and not the defendant’s spouse, to contact the sexual organ of the defendant; then you will find the defendant guilty of the offense of SEXUAL ASSAULT as alleged in the indictment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Isenhower v. State