Cornet v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso))
Relationships
Relies on Almanza v. State · Boykin v. State · Hall v. State · Vernon v. State · Vasquez v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“that the[], statements, taken together, constitute evidence sufficient to establish confession in the context of confession and" avoidance — that is, we think it would be reasonable for a fact-finder to infer from the appellant’s defensive evidence that he admitted to penetration ... [;]that his fingers were wet because he “reached beneath the natural fold of skin” of [the victim]’s labia and entered “an area of the body not usually exposed to view, even in nakedness”; that' in order to make the hymen visible, the appellant would have to make some contact with the child’s genitals that could “reasonably be regarded ... as more intrusive than contact with her outer vaginal lips”; and that the appellant crossed the legal line demarcating penetration when he, as he testified at trial, “spread her cheeks.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]o enter into” or “to pass through.” See, e.g., Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, p. 1670 (Merriam-Webster 1981). Thus, in common parlance, mere contact with the outside of an object does not amount to a penetration of it. But pushing aside and reaching beneath a natural fold of skin into an area of the body not usually exposed to view, even in nakedness, is a significant intrusion beyond mere external contact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“deal[s] with justifying otherwise-harmful conduct toward a child on the grounds that the conduct was in the best medical interest of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estrella v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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