Legal Opinion

Leavelle Franklin v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)

Decided March 10, 2015No. 06-14-00046-CRPublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice Moseley

A jury convicted Leavelle Franklin of three counts of aggravated sexual assault of his seven-year-old daughter, Tasha Johnson (pseudonym), with two previous felony convictions. 1 Franklin pled true to the State’s habitual-offender enhancement paragraph and was handed consecutive sentences of life imprisonment on each count. Franklin appeals his conviction on the grounds that the trial court erred (1) in admitting a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner’s (SANE) reports over his hearsay objection, (2) in limiting cross-examination of the forensic interviewer, which was…

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Mosley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998
  2. Ladd v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1999
  3. Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2008
  4. Taylor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2008
  5. Davis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2010

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Donald Ray Wells v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2017
  2. Kevin Fahrni v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2015
  3. Estes v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
  4. Eric Bledsoe v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
  5. Andrew Salazar Ramos v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2023

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