Estes v. State

OPINION

TERRIE LIVINGSTON, CHIEF JUSTICE

In ten issues, appellant Russell Lamar Estes appeals his convictions for five counts of sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child by contact. He argues that a statutory provision that made his sexual assault convictions first-degree felonies rather than second-degree felonies is unconstitutional as it applies to him, that the trial court committed error during voir dire by sustaining the State’s objection to a question that he posed to the jury panel, that the trial court abused its discretion by excluding certain evidence and by admitting…