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Aekins v. State

Citations

  • 447 S.W.3d 270
  • 2014 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1718
  • 2014 WL 5368900

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that “two offenses that are the ‘same’ may both be punished; sometimes two ‘different’ offenses may not both be punished”
  • declaring that “the discredited ‘carving doctrine’ . . . was properly jettisoned” in McWilliams, 634 S.W.2d at 817
  • stating that “Sexual Assault under subsection 22.011(a)(1)(A) criminalizes two separate acts—penetrating by any means (1) the anus, or (2
  • stating that “Sexual Assault under subsection 22.011(a)(1)(A) criminalizes two separate acts—penetrating by any means (1) the anus, or (2) the sexual organ”
  • noting that a multiple-punishment double jeopardy violation may occur when the same conduct is punished under both a greater and a lesser-included offense
  • noting that “[w]hat matters is the sexual assault upon the victim, not what the defendant used to commit that discrete assault”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cochran, Meyers, Womack, Johnson, Alcala, Keller, Price, Keasler, Hervey

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89 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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