Sauceda v. State

OPINION ON REMAND

EVA M. GUZMAN, Justice.

In 2001, appellant Kevin Sauceda was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentenced to forty years’ confinement. This court affirmed the conviction in an unpublished opinion, holding that (1) the complainant’s outcry statement was sufficiently reliable; (2) appellant’s constitutional right of confrontation had not been violated; and (3) the State was entitled to introduce a videotape of the complainant’s interview with a caseworker, in its entirety, under the rule of optional completeness if the defense called the caseworker to testify.…