Case Name: EX PARTE Arthur Wing Hung CHANG, Applicant
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 2016-03-23
Citations: 485 S.W.3d 918
Docket Number: NO. WR-82,712-01
Parties: EX PARTE Arthur Wing Hung CHANG, Applicant
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 485
Pages: 918–919

Head Matter:
EX PARTE Arthur Wing Hung CHANG, Applicant
NO. WR-82,712-01
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Filed March 23, 2016
Don Hase, Arlington, TX, for Applicant.
Steve W. Conder, District Attorney, Fort Worth, Texas, Lisa C. McMinn, State’s Attorney, Austin, for The State.

Opinion:
DISSENTING OPINION
Yeary, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
The Court today grants post-conviction habeas corpus relief on the grounds that Applicant was convicted under a statute that was later declared to be unconstitutionally overbroad, namely, Texas' improper photography statute. See Majority Opinion (granting relief based upon Ex parte Thompson, 442 S.W.3d 325 (Tex.Crirm.App. 2014)). However, I believe the argument I made in my dissenting opinion in Ex parte Fournier, while addressing a different statute—Texas' Online Solicitation of a Minor statute—still applies to Applicant in this case. See Ex parte Fournier, 473 S.W.3d 789, 800-805 (Tex.Crim.App. 2015) (Yeary, J., dissenting) (arguing that the Court should not grant retroactive relief in post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings without deciding whether applicants who were convicted under a statute that has been held to be unconstitutionally overbroad should have to show that the statute was unconstitutional as applied to them). Therefore, I dissent for the rea sons stated in my dissenting opinion in Fournier.