Legal Opinion

Klein v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 1, 2008No. PD-502-06PublishedCited by 98 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

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2Opinion of the Court · HerveyHervey, J.

KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, KEASLER and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.

Appellant was charged in an eight-count indictment with aggravated sexual assault of a child. The complainant in this case is appellant’s daughter, who is a gifted child with a genius-range IQ of 147. When she was ten years old, the complainant told a school counselor (Batchelder) that appellant had sexually abused her. Very soon after this, the complainant repeated these accusations to a CPS investigator (Todd) and to a police investigator (Cook). The complainant subsequently recanted these accusations against appellant. During…

3Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  3. Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Leday v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998
  5. State v. DixonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2006

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4Cited by98 opinions

  1. Ferguson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2014
  2. Martin v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2011
  3. Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2017
  4. Sauceda v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2010
  5. David Shane West v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2013

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