Land v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Charles Douglas Land, fifty-two years of age, was found at a motel in the Pacific northwest with a fifteen-year-old girl, A.N., after a notorious, multi-state flight that began in Bowie County, Texas. Land was convicted by a jury of sexual assault of a child, and his sentence was enhanced using two prior felony convictions in California. The jury assessed Land’s punishment at seventy-five years’ imprisonment.

Land contends that the trial court’s admission of a videotaped interview with A.N. violated his right to confrontation of A.N. under the Federal and…