Court Opinion

ID: 9659950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:59:20.050918+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:13.341941
License: Public Domain

STOVER, Justice,
concurring.
The Legislature has never banned nudity in Texas. Instead, it passed Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 42.01(a)(12) (Vernon 1994) requiring recklessness in exposure for criminal prosecution. Under the restricted facts of this case, I concur that proof of the element of a reckless act is missing. Until such time as the Legislature passes legislation which, per se, forbids and banishes nudity in Texas, each of these cases must be analyzed distinctively as to whether or not a violation of § 42.01(a)(12) has occurred.