Legal Opinion
State v. Harrod
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided August 30, 2002No. 05-01-01748-CRPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice MORRIS.
In this criminal case, we construe a Texas Family Code provision that grants immunity from liability. Specifically, we determine whether section 261.106(a) of the Texas Family Code broadly protects a person from any criminal liability or whether it protects a person from criminal liability only for certain acts referred to in the section, including reporting child abuse and participating in a child abuse investigation. We conclude the family code, as applied in this case, does not grant the broad immunity suggested by appellee but, instead, immunizes a person…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Mosley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998
- Grunsfeld v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
- Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Whitelaw v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
- Sanchez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1999
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3Cited by6 opinions
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