Offor v. Scott

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

For at least the third time in as many years, we pass upon a case in which a Texas court convicted a defendant of molesting a child after a trial in which the jury, over the defendant’s objection, watched a videotaped interview of the victim describing the alleged acts of sexual abuse, an interview at which no representative of the defendant was present. See Shaw v. Collins, 5 F.3d 128 (5th Cir.1993); Lowery v. Collins, 988 F.2d 1364, modified by 996 F.2d 770 (5th Cir.1993). We follow both of our prior cases in holding that the admission of the videotape…