4. Texas Penal Code §43.041: Aggravated Online Promotion of Prostitution A separate crime is created for “aggravated” online promotion of prostitution in Chapter 43 of the Texas Penal Code. What is “aggravated” under this new statute? “Aggravated” describes an operation where at lea...
Sexual assault, or rape, of a co-worker is an extreme form of sexual harassment. In these situations, criminal charges can be brought under the Texas Penal Code. Sexual Harassment: Discrimination in Violation of Civil Rights Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sexual harassment...
IN 2005 WHEN the FLDS community first started arriving in Texas, the state legislature reacted by rewriting its statutory rape and bigamy statutes to specifically address FLDS practices.28Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff came to Austin to assist with these rewrites. In addition to the usua...
a person aged 16 years or younger is not mature enough to consent to sexual activity, and any adult who has sexual interaction with a minor of this age may be convicted of indecency, sexual assault or statutory rape. From the age of 17, a...
The Court concluded that although the evidence was sufficient to prove rape under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 21.02, it was insufficient to show an aggravated rape under Sec. 21.03, supra, and thus the case was reversed. In Little v. State, 573 S.W.2d 775, this Court found the evid...
IN 2005 WHEN the FLDS community first started arriving in Texas, the state legislature reacted by rewriting its statutory rape and bigamy statutes to specifically address FLDS practices.28Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff came to Austin to assist with these rewrites. In addition to the u...
The Georgia and Florida statutes followed the Model Penal Code's recommendation: narrow the pool of death-eligible defendants to the "worst of the worst" by defining murder broadly and then requiring the prosecution to prove the existence of a statutory aggravator—such as killing a police ...