Lane v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The duly organized Grand Jury of Harris County, Texas, presents in the District Court of Harris County, Texas, that in Harris County, Texas, JUSTIN DAREN BUXTON, hereafter styled the Defendant, heretofore on or about October 15, 2007 and continuing through October 15, 2012, did then and there, unlawfully, during a period of time thirty or more days in duration, commit at least two acts of sexual abuse against a child younger than fourteen years of age, including an act constituting the offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child, committed against [C.T.] on or about October 15, 2007, and an act constituting the offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child, committed against [C.T.] on or about October 15, 2012, and the Defendant was at least seventeen years of age at the time of the commission of each of those acts.”

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

2. “Section 21.02, however, is defined in terms of other acts that by their terms require a culpable mental state. Section 21.02’s express requirement that these acts be committed is therefore functionally indistinguishable from an express requirement of the mental state essential to their commission. Section 21.02 need not prescribe some additional mental state because its actus reus is merely the repeated commission of acts already requiring culpable mental states. It follows that section 6.02, which by its terms applies only to statutes that do not set forth a culpable mental state, is inapplicable to section 21.02.”

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