Rickels v. State

OPINION

KEASLER, J.,

delivered opinion of the Court

in which COCHRAN, HOLCOMB, HERVEY, PRICE and MEYERS, J.J., joined.

We are asked to decide whether a condition of probation that prohibited Terry Rickels from going “within three hundred (300) feet of any premises where children 17 years or younger congregate or gather” was too vague to be enforced because the condition did not specify how the child safety zone was to be measured. We hold that it was not too vague to be enforced.

Facts and Procedural History

A jury convicted Rickels of indecency with a child by touching and indecency with a child…