Legal Opinion

Brian Sellers v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District

Decided May 9, 2019No. 13-18-00572-CRPublished

1Opinion of the Court

NUMBER 13-18-00572-CR COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG BRIAN SELLERS, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. On appeal from the 319th District Court of Nueces County, Texas. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Benavides and Hinojosa Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Contreras Last year, this Court held in Ramirez v. State that Texas Penal Code § 21.12, which criminalizes sexual contact between an educator and student regardless of age, does not violate substantive due process as guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Agostini v. FeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  2. Lawrence v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
  3. Obergefell v. HodgesSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  4. Paulson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  5. Ex Parte AbellTexas Supreme Court · 1981

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