Angel L. Torres v. Lori Torres

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• holding that because the statutory definition of “sexual abuse” requires acts that are a violation of Texas law, an out-of-state act will not support a conviction for continuous sexual abuse
• holding that defendant’s act of sexual abuse that occurred in another state could not be considered as a predicate offense in Texas for a conviction for continuous sexual abuse
• observing that one element of the offense is “two or more violations of enumerated penal code sections”
• clarifying that, for sufficiency purposes, “[e]ach predicate offense must be a violation of Texas law” so out-of-state sexual abuse did not qualify as a predicate act
• clarifying that “Texas ha[d] jurisdiction over the [continuous sexual abuse] case as long as one element of the offense occurred in Texas” but that, for sufficiency purposes, “[e]ach predicate offense must be a violation of Texas law” so out-of-state abuse does not qualify
• “Texas has jurisdiction over an offense if either a conduct element or a result element occurs inside the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).