Speights, Billy Wayne’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In Loving , we explained, “indecency with a child by exposure and by contact protect children from different potential harms.” In this regard, the relationship of “exposure” to “contact” within our indecency with a child statute is similar to the relationship between different kinds of contact involving different parts of the body within that same statute, ie., anus, breast, or genitals. As we explained in Loving , “because the subsection prohibits the commission of any one of those acts, each act is a separate offense,” and as such, a discrete allowable unit of prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Steven Dale Hawkins v. State