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TR. cT. No: cR29320A APR 132@`3§
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JARED MORRISON

MOTION TO OBJECT TO THE TRIAL COURT'S FINDINGS OF FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
[MORRISON\S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF REGARDING FLEMING V. STATE 441 S.W.3D 253 (TEX CRIM 2014)]

Comes now, Jared Morrison ("Morrison"), pro se, and presents to this Honorable
Court of Criminal Appeals this Motion to object to the Trial Court's Findings of Fact
and Conclusions of Law ("The court's findingsf), filed with this court March 18, 2015.
Upon reading the court's findings, Morrison realized that it was subjectively one-
sided, and replete with baseless and unsubstantiated claims, which may be unfairly
construed to discredit Morrison's Post-Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus: Grounds 2-7, 14.

The District Court Wrote and filed these findings on March 6, 2015. On March lO, 2015
Morrison filed with the district court Exhibits "N"-"S" with a Motion to Disqualify the
Affidavit of David Rogers (which proves David Rogers' affidavit as untrue), a Motion to
object to the Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene (which shows some of the statements in
this affidavit as untrue), a motion for a live evidentiary hearing, and motion for bench
warrant. Because the district court wrote the court's findings before it had the
opportunity to see those important motions and exhibits (which would disprove iGorrison' s
former attornies' affidavits) the district court based its findings soley on the false
claims in the affidavits of David Rogers and Ian Cantacuzene. Morrison therefore,
humbly asks this Honorable Court to ojjectively consider those two motions, and exhibits

”N"- "S" attached thereto, along with*Motion to object to the trial court' s findings/The

Fleming Brief, while ruling on his Post Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus. In Morrison's
Motion to Stay and Abey that he sent on March 27, 2015, Morrison intended to do this
motion to object to the trial court's findings separatley, but since the court's
findings relied so heavily on Fleming, for the sake of brevity in Morrison's/already
extreamly long Post Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus, Morrison merged the two into

this one "Motion to Object/Fleming Brief". Morrison shows the following:

1) On December 30, 2014 Morrison filed his Post-Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus/ll.07
with the 385th Judicial District Court, Midland County Texas. The Honorable Judge
Robin Darr preciding.

2) On January 22, 2015 the district court ordered the affidavits from Morrison's prior
attornies: David Rogers, Ian Cantacuzene, and Tom Morgan.

3) On Februrary ll, 2015 Morrison received the three affidavits from the above mentioned
attornies, and upon reading them, he realized that the majority of the statements

in the affidavit of David Rogers were untrue, and some of the statements in the

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Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene were untrue. Morrison can prove with the Exhibits
"N"- -"R", and by comparing Rogers' s statements in his affidavit with the record, or
contadictions with other statements in his affidavit that Roger' s statements are
untrue, therefore MOrrison had his mother,Jana Morrison, send him some of his old 2011
letters that him and Jason MOrrison wrote to each other, which clearly show Morrison's
mentality at that time contradicts the things Rogers claims to have counseled him_
about in his affidavit.(See Exhibits "N"-"S").

Because Morrison has only shown, but not proven with concrete evidence, as he has
done with the Affidavit of David Rogers, that Ian Cantacuzene's statements are untrue,

Morrison only objects to Cantacuzene?s statements instead of asking the court to

disqualify them ali together. Because the Affidavit of Tom Morgan really had no affect

on Morriscn's

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ase- Morrison chose not to address it at this time;

41 On Februrarv 15, 2015 Morrison contacted Jana Morrison to have her send Exhibits
"N"¢"S" which disproves the Affidavit of David Rogers.

5) On Februrary 23, 2015 Morrison received the letters, then incorporated them into
his Motion to Disgualify the Affidavit of David Rogers. l

6) Morrison finished the task on Februrary 27, 2015 and sent the four motions to Jana
Morrison to copy and serve to all parties, and to file with the court, via U.S. Mail.

7) On March 6, 2015 the district judge filed the court's findings, and ordered a copy
sent to the Court of Criminal Appeals, and to Morrison.

8) On March 2, 2015 the motions Morrison drafted left the prison by U.S. Mail.

9) On March lO, 2015 Jana Morrison received the motions Morrison sent to her, and she
copied and filed them, along with the eight-eight exhibits with the district court,
and served a copy to ROGERS, Cantacuzene, and the State's attorney.

lO) On March 18, 2015 the Court of Criminal Appeals received the 88 page Findings of
Facts and Conclusions of Law, along with Morrison's 11.07.

11) On March 24, 2015 Morrison Received the court's findings.`

12) On March 26, 2015 Morrison drafted the Motion to Stay and Abey the Court of Criminal
Appeals' decision for 60 days to allow time for Morrison to draft this motion and
short brief to comment about the July 18, 2014 opinion of Fleming v. State 441 S.W.3d
252 (Tex, Crim. 2014), and to make sure the Court of Criminal Appeals received his
Motion to Disqualify the Affidavit of David Rogersr with Exhibits "N"-"S", and the
Motion to object to the Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene.

13) On March 27, 2015 Morrison sent out the Motion to Stay and Abey to the Court of
Criminal Appeals, and a carbon copy to the district court, and state's attorney.

14) On March 30, 2015 Morrison started drafting this Motion to object/Fleming brief.

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OBJECTIONS TO THE OOURT'S FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
[WITH MORRISON'S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF FOR FLEMING]

l) The only objection Morrison has regarding Section I, Il, II pp.l-l2 is on page 6.
The court made a typo in reference to the 3/5/11 letter Morrison wrote to Judge
Darr. The court stated: "She also dressed, cooked, and acted like she was 21."
Cooked should be looked. Morrison can not tell if someone is 21 based off of the
way they may cook.

2) Morrison objects to section III, and suggests that an evidentiary hearing be had to
resolve any issues that may be left unresolved in light of Morrison's motion to
Disqualify the Affidavit of David Rogers, Exhibits "N"-"S", and the Motion to Object
to the Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene. (See Motion for Live Evidentiary Hearing).
If this fine court rules in Morrison's favor on a different ground, then may this
issue be moot. d

3) On page 14-16 the district court cites several cases, including Fleming, to say
that the law applicable to sex offenses against children:

a) Are strict liability offenses and the actor's knowledge that the child was under
the age of 17 is not an element of the offense, l

b) The statute does not require that the state allege or prove the actor knew that
the child was under the age of 17 at the time of the offense.

c) The defense of mistake of fact under 8.02 Penal Code or a reasonable mistake of age
does not apply to sexual offenses against children.

d) These strict liability provisons involving sexual offenses against children do not
violate Due Process of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution or Due Course of Law under Article l Section 19 of the Texas
Constitution.

Morrison acknowledges that this fine court's opinion in Fleming (heavily relied
upon by the district court to discount his claims), at first glance may seem to
controvert his grounds for relief, but Morrison asserts that his grounds for relief 1
are completely distinguishable from Fleming in several ways, and the trial court's
reliance on Fleming to say Morrison's claims are without merit are incorrect. Because
the district court cited and relied on the majority of the Fleming opinion to discredit
his claims in the court's findings, Morrison went ahead and killed two birds with one
stone, and has included his Fleming Brief in with this motion.

First, Morrison humbly insists that the 22.011 statute as written, by the literal
plain language, is constitutional, and does provide for a mens rea in regards to the
status of the complainant being a child. Morrison has proven by citing constitutional

provisions, Supreme Court, 5th Circuit, and Court of Criminal Appeals precident, that lF

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a proper statutory construction analysis was to be done on 22.011, there is no way that
it could be said that the prescribed culpable mental state ("CMS") in the heading of
22.011 could modify-only the first nine words "cause the penetration of the anus or
sexual organ", then skip the next three words "of a child", then pick up again to
modify the last three words "by any means". (See page 25 of Memorandum of Law attached
to Morrison's application for Writ of Habeas Corpus/ll.07, and ground 2).

It has also been shown by Morrison that the statute 22.011 cannot be construed as
strict liability because for a statute to be strict liability, the legislature must
clearly dispense with any mental element, especially when that element is the act that
makes otherwise innocent conduct criminal, but that in its self is also strongly
opposed to by The Supreme Court.

The majority opinion in Fleming acknowledged that:

"The Texas Penal Code does not specify that mens rea as to the age of the victim
is unnecessary.“ Fleming at 258.

Therefore, pursuant to section 6.02(b) of the Penal Code, and Supreme Court precident
in cases like Staples v. U.S. 114 S.Ct 1793 (1994); Liparota v. U.S. 105 S.Ct 2084 ;;
(1985), 22.011 cannot be strict liability because it does not dispense with any mental
element. However, the Fleming majority attempted to justify the Texas Legislature's
omission of dispensing with that mental element by invoking the federal statutory rape
laws to say:

"The government need not prove that the other person had not attained the age of
12 years. See 18 U.S.C. § 2241(d). See also 18 U.S.C. 2243(d) (In the prosecution
for sexual abuse of a minor between the ages of 12 and 16, the government need
not prove that the defendant knew the age of the other person engaging in the
sexual act. )" (Inside Quotation marks left out). Fleming at 258.

Morrison humbly calls "foul" on that remark, and asserts that the federal equivalent
to Texas' statutory rape lan’does not control or have jurisdiction with the Texas
Penal Code, but if the majority of this, wiser than heim/Court of Criminal Appeals
insists that it does, then they should also make sure to apply the mistake of age
defense that is also provided for under 2243(c) to 22,011. (See Morrison's Memorandum
of Law at pp.18, 40-41). If the legislature did not want for section 6.02 to apply to
22.011, they would have explicitly mentioned it into statute like they have done in
section 49.11 rendering offenses dealing with alcohol strict liability as D.W.I.

22.011 also subjects people to 20 years in prison, and requires that they register
as a sex offender for life. That form of punishment and stigma on someone's reputation
does not, according to the Supreme Court, fit in line with strict liability offenses.
(See Memorandum of Law under Ground 2 and 5).

Secondly, in Morrison's 11.07 he has proved that his intentional conduct, as well

as the marriage defense in 22.011 involve First Amendment protected conduct, as

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defined by the Supreme Court cases in: Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479 (1965);
Eisenstadt V. Baird 405 U.S. 438 (1972); Lawrence v. Texas 123 S. Ct 2472 (2003);
Planned parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth 428 U.S. 52 (1976); Broadwick v.,
Oklahoma 93 S.Ct 2908 (1973): Dombrowski v. Pfister 380 U.S. 479 (1965); Bigelow v.
Virginia 421 U.S. 809 (1975). (See Memorandum of Law Ground 3, 5, and 7).Therefore,
all the constitutional claims that Morrison raises must be analyzed under the strict
scrutiny analysis and not the rational basis review as done in Fleming. Since the
strict liability interpretation is not narrowly tailored to further the legitimate or
compelling governmental interest of protecting children, and a mens rea modifying
_"of a child", or a reasonable mistake of age defense (like the one that is proposed
by the wise Justices: Keller, Price, and Johnson at Fleming 293), would still equally
protect children from 14 to 16 years, without causing the statute to be unconstitutionally
vague and overbroad, nor would it violate the Equal Protection of the Laws, and send
men to prison for seemingly doing an innocent, First Amendment protected act. The
strict liability interpretation of 22. 011 is unconstitutional.`

Third, Morrison has raised and challenged other constitutional claims that have not
yet been considered by the.learned Justices of this fine court, (See Grounds 2-7, and
Memorandum of Law pp.l4-88, 95).

Fourth, because the complainant in Morrison's case was 15 years, which pertains to
the 14 to 16 year protected age group in the lesser offense of 22.011, instead of the
aggrivating factor in 22.021 of any age under 14 years (0-13 years), as Fleming's
complainant was, Morrison's case is distingushable regarding the two statutes, and it
should be looked at under a different analysis than cases involving 22.021. See the
Honorable Justice Alacala's concurring opinion at 263, where she agrees that it may be
appropriate to allow a mistake of a defense for 14 to 16 year old teenagers who have
a limited right to consent, but not to children under 14 years. Even though Justice
Alcala agrees with Morrison's views in this matter, she stated that: "This determination
is ultimately for the legislative branch alone to make, rather than the judicial branch."

Morrison subserviently disagrees and suggests that the legislature has already done
so. Since 22.0ll's enactment in 1983, the legislature has never said that the required
CMS of intentionally or knowingly does not modify"of a child", therefore the prescribed
mens rea should attach to "of a child", making the mistake of fact an available defense.
Morrison has clearly proven that by the Court of Appeals negating the mens rea and the
mistake of age defense regarding "of a child", without constitutional authority, is a
violation of the Seperation of Powers Doctrine and Equal Protection of the Laws, and
the results have caused 22.011 to be unconstitutionally vague, overbroad, and
overinclusive. Because 22.011 is already subject to a narrowing construction that would

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eliminate these constitutional infirmities that the strict liability interpretation
has generated, the statute need not be rewritten. lt is just a matter of merely
doing a proper statutory construction analysis, and the powerful Court of Criminal
Appeals is just the court to interpret the statute's plain language more narrowly to
make the statute constitutional. (See memorandum of Law p.83, Grounds 2, 51 and 7)

At the bottom of page 16 to the top of page 18 of the Court's findings, the district
court asserts that the statute in section 22.011 is not vague or uncertain with respect
to the fact that the statute does not require that the actor know the child was under
17 years, or that mistake of fact as to the age of the child is not a defense. The
district court then compares 22.011's CMS with other crimes like murder, resisting
arrest, aggrivated assault of a public servant, and improper relationship to an educator
and student to say: That had the legislature required for the commision of the offense
of sexual assault or indecency with a child that the actor must know that the child
was under the age of consent, the legislature would have done so as the legislature
has done in those offenses when explicitly requiring that knowledge of the victimbs
status must be proved. Morrison has already shown that the language of 22.011 is
already explicit enough to show that the intentionally or knowingly CMS requirement
must modify"of a child", 4

To say: "To commit an offense a person must:

Intentionally or knowingly:

Cause the penetration of the sexual organ of a child by any means and

the person must know that it was a child to commit the offense."
is superfluous. The legislature does not have to make superfluous statutes. According
to the correct grammer, syntax, and punctuation of 22.011, every thing that comes after
the colon in the phrase "Intentionally or Knowingly':'" is modified by what precedes
the colon. (See page 15 of Memorandum of Law).

None of the statutes that the district court compares 22.011 ttyare written like
22.011 is written, plus Morrison is not discussing other statutes in this vagueness
ground. He has specifically proved that-begg§se~ZZ.Oll, by its plain language, does
have a CMS that can be, has been, and will continue to be interpreted by people of
ordinary intelligence to modify "of a child", but because of the strict liability
interpretation, the CMS does not modify "of a child", even though the statute does
not dispense with any mental element.The statute is vague and ambiguous because of how
it has been interpreted and that interpretation is not written into the statute,
therefore, Morrison and others have not been given proper notice of the Court of Appeals'
strict liability interpretation. (See Ground 7)¢No court has held that a legislature must

include a Knowledge requirement for each element or to the victim's status, like the
district court says here, and the Fleming majority suggest at 258 n.4, but it has been

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held and is commonly known that silence of a CMS does not necessarily dispense with

the presumption of a mens rea, and one must be read into the statute unless it is

clear that the legislature intended for the statute to dispense with the mental element.
So the real comparison should be:

"Had the legislature intended to require 22. 011 to be strict liability, they would
have clearly dispensed with the intentionally or knowingly CMS like they have done
in 2OA. 02(b)(1) (Trafficking a person), and 43. 05(a)(2) (Compelling Prostitution).
Or they could have specifically dispensed with section 6. 02 like they have done
in section 49.11 dealing with intoxication and alcohol.“

The legislature has not clearly dispensed with the mental element as shown here,
thereforey they intended for 22.011 to require a CMS in regards to "of a child". The
court's claim that 22;011 is not vague or uncertain is wrong, Morrison has clearly'
proved by the meaning of constitutional provisions and Supreme Court holdings that _
22.011's strict liability interpretation is unconstitutionally vague and ambiguous on
its face and as-applied to his situation. (See Ground 7). l

`5) On page 18 to the top of page 20 of the court's findings, the district court has
followed the court of appeals'err and based the current 22.011 statute's strict
liability on the repealed Texas Penal Code section 21.09, and have cited and quoted
Vasquez v. State 622 S.W.2d 864: (Tex Crim- 1981), which is predicated on 21.09, to
continue to justify 22.0ll as being strict liability, despite the fact the
legislature clearly prescribed a CMS into 22.011, and did not dispense with any mental
element. 22.011 supersedes 21.09, Vasquez, Morissette n.8, and other cases that talk
about statutory rape being strict liability. These pre-1983 cases are no longer
persuasive, or much less controlling. No where has the legislature said since 1983,
that 6§02, 8.02, and 2.01 do not apply to 22.011 or that the CMS in 22.011 does not
Modify "of a child". (see grounds 2, and 5).

6) On page 20-22 the district court again cited to and quoted Fleming supra to attempt
to discount Morrison's claims. Morrison wishes to take this time to not only
challenge the district court's reliance on Fleming, but to also continue his brief
on why he feels Fleming's holdings should not apply to his constitutional claims
regarding the similar issues raised in his 11.07 regarding 22.011;

Morrison does agree with the Honorable Justice Meyers' comment about the colloquialisms

such as "16 will get you 20" and "Jailbait" addressing only the understanding that even

consensual sex with someone under age is unnecessary. These phrases like the plain
language of 22. 011 do nothing to address strict liability regarding statutory rape,

j supporting Morrison' s position that 22.011 is unconstitutionally vag:§j§hew statute' s

plain language does not properly alert the masses of the strict liability interpretation.

(See Memorandum of Law p.80, and Ground 7). ,

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7) Fleming is also distinguishable because Justice Meyers addresses the fact that 22.021`
compared to 22.011 is an enhancement offense based off of the age of the child.
Because the victim was under 14, as opposed to 14 to 16 years, Fleming was charged
with a first degree felony instead of 22.011, a second degree felony¢ Justice Meyers
compared his logic with murder saying that under section 19.03 if the victim is
under 10 years of age it then enhances to capital murder, and there is no mens rea
as to the age listed in either sexual assault or murder statutes, and there is no
fundamental right to a mens rea element regarding the age of the victim in these
conte;s. 22.011 cannot compare because the legislature did not intend the age to be
an aggrivating factor. They intended the age of 14 to 16 to be the only element_in
22.011 that makes the provision a crime. All other factors that aggrivate consensual
sex with the 14 to 16 year protected age group, like threat, coersion, force; etc.
are criminalized in 22.021. Unlike murder, aggrivated assault of a public servant,
or other aggrivating elements or jurisdictional facts that enhance the offense
otherwise commited with evil intent, the age of the child in 22.011 (14 to 16 years)
is the elemental fact that separates legal innocence from wrongful conduct and does
not compare. See X¥Citement Video 115 S.Ct 464 at 469 n.3 (1994); Also compare to
Justice Meyers' wise discussion in Zubia v. State 998 S;W.Zd 226} 229 n.5 (Tex Crim.
1999);(See Memorandum of Law pp.l9, 35, and ground 2.) Also compare to the Honorable
Chief Justice Keller's dissent in Fleming supra at 269, and 286 n.157.

8) The majority of this Fine Court,in Fleming, overruled Fleming's constitutional claim
by analyzing it by using the most lenient of the three constitutional reviews, the
rational basis review, and held: 1

"Because the statute serves a legitimate state's objective of protecting children,

we will not read a mens rea into the statute and do not believe that failure to
require a mens rea as to the victim's age violates the state or federal constitution."
(emphasis added) Fleming at 258.

Because it is not a crime for 14 to 16 year old children to have sexual relations
with adults who are married to them, and the right to marry or to remain unmarried,
and all the intimate decisions there between are protected by the First Amendment, and
Morrison has proved that because of the vague strict liability interpretation of
22.011, his and others' First Amendment right to copulate and freedon of intimate
association with the 17 to 25 year age group have been burdened and chilled, rendering
the statute unconstitutionally overbroad, a fundamental natural First Amendment
protected right has been implicated, therefore, the strict scrutiny analysis should
be used to review Morrison's constitutional claims. (See Memorandum of Law pp.52-53,

60, and 68)¢ Fleming is distinguishable because the Court used the rational basis

review.

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Justice Meyers went on to say for the Majority that:

"The statutory prohibition of an adult having sex with a person who is under the
age of consent serves to protect young people from being coerced.by the power of
an older more mature person." at 258. (Emphasis added)

Morrison agrees with that statement as being the legitimate state's objective in
creating both 22.021 and 22.011, and that legitimate state's objective connotes the
criminalization of adults who know they are having sex with an underage personf or who
intentionally coerced and underage person into having sex with them. Therefore, making
22.0ll strict liability does nothing more to protect children from what the objectives
of the statute were designed to accomplish because criminalizing an actor who thought
their conduct was innocent (and protected by the constitution) does not fit in line
with the legitimate state's interests of: protecting children from adult predators who
n intentionally target them, and use their more mature influence on an impressionable
underage victim, or protecting children from making rash decisions by punishing an
adult who knowingly had sex with a child who may have made an immature or rash decision.
22.011's strict liability interpretation is not narrowly tailored to support the 1
compelling governmental interest in protecting children from this kind of conduct, and
it would not survive strict scrutiny because 22.011 would be as effective in protecting
children from this conduct described in the state's objectives if it was not strict
liability. (See Memorandum of Law pp.56-57).-
9) One of the reasons the Court of Criminal Appeals used in their holdings to say 22.02l's
strict liability aspect is constitutional is:

"The fact that the statute does not require the state to prove mens rea as to the
victims age places the burden on the adult to ascertain the age of the potential
sex partner and avoid sexual encounters with those who are determined to be too
young to consent to such encounters. If the adult chooses not to ascertain the
age of the sexual partner then the adult assumes the risk that he or she may be
held liable.of the conduct if it turns out that the sexual partner is underage."
Fleming at 258-259..(Emphasis added).

Because it has been held by the Supreme Court that consensual sexual relations with
adults are protected by the First Amendment, and it has also been held by the Court that
the government cannot"burden", inhibit, or curtail a First Amendment protected right,
Morrison humbly, suggests that this statement made in this Fine Court's Fleming holding
proves, especially in cases involving 14 to 16 year old children (who alot of time are
indistinguishable from adults), that strict liability violates the overbreadth doctrine
of the United States Constitution. See Memorandum of Law pp. 70-76, 46, and 81 to see
real life examples of how this mentality has made strict liability of 22.011
unconstitutionally overbroad, as to Morrison's situation and on its face.

10) The Court's Majority also held, regarding the mistake of fact defense that since the

sexual assault statute like the murder statute specifies a more severe punishment

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based on age of the victim, that a mistake of fact defense does not apply because of
the plain language of 8.02:

"It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable
4belief about a matter of fact.if his mistaken belief negated the kind of
culpability required for the commission of the offense."

And because 22. 021 requires no culpability as to the age of the victim, there is nothing
for the defendant' s mistaken belief to negate, and his mistake cannot be a defense to
prosecution. Fleming at 259.

Because age is the elemental fact in 22.011, and it does not enhance the punishment or
degree of the crime as held by the Majority here, regarding mistake of fact defense
applying to the aggrivating factor of under 14 years in 22.021 or under 10 years in the
murder statute, 22.011 is distinguishable, and because the only criminal element that
is prescribed in 22.011 is that the actor had consentual-in-fact sex with a child from'
14 to 16 years, the age is~the criminal element that separates otherwise innocent conduct
from criminal conduct. Therefore, according to Supreme Court cases like Liparota, Staples,
and X-Citement Video supra¢ some sort of mens rea must attach to the criminal element
that makes the otherwise innocent conduct criminal, especially when the legislature did
not dispense with that mental element. Morrison has proved that-without at least a
reasonable affirmative defense of mistake of age in 22.011L the statute's strict liability
interpretation makes 22.011 unconstitutionally vague, overbroad, and it violates the
equal protection of laws.

Morrison's interpretation of 8.02 is that it applies when someone was mistaken about
the facts that constitute the offense (i.e. "of a child", someone under 17 years in
22.011), and since the plain language of 22.011, to Morrison, suggests that the CMS does
modify everything after "Intentionally or Knowingly:" including "of a child", then that
is the“kind of culpability required" for the commission of the offense. A proper
statutory construction analysis of 22.011 as stated in Ground 2 and Ground 5 would make
the CMS modify "of a child", therefore, that would be the required culpability for
purposes of the mistake of fact defense to be used when his mistaken belief about those
facts were in question.

ll) The comment that this Court made that said:

"When a defendant voluntarily engages in sexual activity with someone who may be'
within a protected age group, he should know that there may be criminal consequenses
and there will be no excuse for such actions, when it comes to protecting those

who are unable, due to their tender age, to consent to sexual activity the
legislature simply does not allow any variance." at 259.

Morrison contends that this statement does not apply to 22.011, because 22.011 has two
"variances" that do allow the protected age group (14 to 16) to consent to sexual

activity, despite their tender years. 14 to 16 year old children according to statute
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can have sexual relations with a person within three years of their own age, or to an
adult who is married to them. Justice Meyers is correct in saying that in Flemings
situation, regarding children under 14 years, the law does not allow any variances for
consent, therefore 22.011 is distinguishable from Fleming in this regard as well. Also
someone in the protected age group in 22.011 (14 to 16), a lot of timesumay not lookor act
like someone who "may be within the protected age group}"

12) The last statement made by this Court in Fleming:

"It would be unconscoinable for us to allow a 25-year-old man who was having sex
with a l3-year-old child to claim that his actions were excused because he
reasonably believed he washaving sex with an adultm'Such a.defense is precluded
in the overriding interest in protecting children." At 259.

is also distinguishable to 22.011, and Morrison's situation because it is a lot easier
for someone to mistake a 15 year old child as an adult than it is a 13 year old, since
children develope so fast between the ages of 13 and 15, and"most states that do allow
a mistake of age defense disallow such a defense when the child?s age drops below a
certain threshhold."(See Fleming at 285, 286 n.154, 155, and 156 Chief Justice Keller's
dissent.)

Morrison acknowledges that this fine Court of Criminal Appeals has way more wisdom
and knowledge of the law than him and he hopes this Court does not feel disrespected
by him challenging their holdings in this Fleming case, that is not his intent. He only
wants this court to realize the two cases are distinguishable therefore, they look at
his Post Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus under its own light without the influence of
the similar but yet different Fleming case.

END OF FLEMING BRIEF
13) On page 40-57 of the court's findings the district court attempts to discredit
Morrison's first ineffective assistance of counsel ("IAC") claim by strictly going
off of the affidavits of Morrison's pr;or attornies David Rogers ("Rogers") and
Rodion Cantacuzene ("Cantacuzene") also "lan". Morrison asks this Honorable Court
look to the Motion to Disqualify the Affidavit of David Rogers, Exhibits "N"-"S"
which are attched, Exhibits "A", "E", "F", "G", "H",“I", "L", and "M", and the 1
Motion to object to the Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene. A thorough look at these
exhibits and motions will show that Morrison was not properly counseled about his
decision to reject the seven year plea agreement, because his rationale in the
exhibits show that Rogers did not properly counsel him, as he has proved in Ground

One; If this Wise Court decides in Morrison's favor on a different issue than this

pround one, and graciously chooses to grant him relief on a different ground, then

may this issue be moot and not take up any more of this Court's precious time to
resolve this issue, which is actually argued in the alternative.

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On page 43 and 45 the district court erroneously brings Morrison's previous counsel

Cantacuzene into Morrison's Ground One IAC claim. Morrison was not claiming IAC against

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Cantacuzene in Ground One. The court claims that Cantacuzene informed Morrison ;
about the strict liability aspect of'22.0111 A look to the two motions above will,
show Morrison's confusion about how Cantacuzene informed him about'it! and it should
not be cons€§ed as Morrison being properly counseled about rejecting the seven year
plea offer as stated for the reason for GrounaOne.
On page 57-64 the court attempts to discredit Morrison's constitutional issues in
his grounds 2-7 by mearly stating:

"The applicant's complaints as stated above are without merit."
Morrison has clearly shown with 77 pages of United States and Texas constitutional
provisions, an array of U.S. Supreme Court, 5th Circuit, and Court of Criminal
Appeals holdings,precident,'and logic, and Texas Penal Codes and Government Codes
that the strict liability interpretation of 22.011 is unconstitutional on its face
and as-applied to his situation. (See Memorandum of Law pp.lB-88, 95).
The state or district court have not shown any reasons nor support to say these
grounds are without merit, therefore, these unsubstantiated claims that Morrison's
grounds are without merit are baseless and unsupported. Morrison's requests for
relief are heavily supported and proved. For that reason the district court's
unsupported claims cannot preclude Morrison from obtaining relief on these grounds.

Morrison asks this court to look to his typed Application for Writ of Habeas

Corpus because in some places of the typed transcription of the court, the district

court left out Morrison's bolded emphasis and made some typos that may diminish,

the effect of his meaning.

15) From the bottom of page 64 to the top of page 72 the district court attempts to

rebut Morrison's Ground 8. The district court stated that Morrison had every right
under Article 11.072 C.C.P. to file for post conviction writ of habeas corpus.

The court also stated that the application for the 11.072 writ may be filed by
counsel for[Morrison] or by [Morrison] acting pro se, and [Morrison] has no right
to appointed counsel for purposes of filing an 11.072 writ. Yes, Morrison had
almost seven years to file the 11.072 writ like the court said, but up until
Februrary 2011, Morrison was completely ignorant about the law and had not ever
read the plain language of the statutes that he read during his incarceration in
2011, which is what affected his decision to write_the 3/5/11 letter to Judge Darr,
and develope the rationale that he had. Therefore, before that time he did not have,
any will or purpose in requesting relief. Because his attorney at that time, Tom
Morgan, was a conflict of interest because he was one of the attornies whom he was

claiming IAC on, and because Morrison did not know anything about proper court

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procedure or anything about proper writ of habeas corpus forms or rules, when Morrison
found out that according to the plain language of the statutes he read that he should
not have pled guilty of 22~011, he did the only thing he knew to do about the situation
he was facing, and he wrote a letter to the only fair person who he thought would help:
The Honorable Judge Darr. Because of the conflict of interest Morrison was soon
appointed new counsel, and he thought that counsel would help him in his goals of getting
the relief he sought. Contrary to what David Rogers said in his affidavit, Morrison was
not told by Rogers what Rogers claims to have told him. Morrison was left ignorant about
his improper filings, while at the same time expecting relief tocome as shown in
Morrison's exhibits and Motion to disqualify the Affidavit of David Rogers.

Rogers knew that Morrison wanted a hearing so he could address his claims to the court
The only thing that Rogers did to remotely help Morrison with his plans for relief was
to file the MOtion for Continuance. Judge Darr overruled it because she did not construe
the letter he wrote her as a writ because: [Morrison] had counsel and when you have
counsel then counsel files any motions that you see necessary. (RR 3 p.9). She then`
asked Rogers if he had seen the letter. He told her yes, but it was out of his scope of
counsel. He made it clear that he was not appointed to help Morrison with any writ.

Since Morrison was appointed counsel which according to the court's above statements
that counsel files any motions that you see necessaryL and because Rogers was appointed;
restricted him from helping Morrison with his writ because as the court now claims,
Morrison has no right to_appointed counsel for purposes of filing an 11.072 writ, but
can hire an attorney to do one for him, or do one pro se, nevertheless, at the hearing
the court denied Morrisonts Motion for Continuance (which was requested to allow
Morrison a habeas corpus hearing before he was convicted of the Motion to Revoke
probation, which was based on Morrison's pro se motion for writ of habeas corpus) because
he had counsel...[apponted counsel])therefore,his letter would not be cons§ued as a writ.
This event completely self-defeats all the logic that the district court tries to now
use to try to justify the abuse of discretion lodged in Ground 8, regardless of the,
pro se applicant¥s improper form.

lt may be true that Morrison was not entitled to appointed counsel for a postconvction
'11.072 in his situation, but it is surely unconstitutional for the court to appoint
counsel to prevent him from filing a pro se writ at the same time his appointed counsel
would not help him with it. Morrison's "every right under Article 11.072 C.C.P. to file
a pro se writ of habeas corpus" was impeded by the district court, regardless of what
~justifications the trial court now trys to use to say Morrison was not entitled to a
writ or continuance. Morrison's main concern in lodging this ground was that his grounds
that he now raises were prevented from being raised and preserved at the trial. Since

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the state nor the district court objected to the grounds now being raised/:BQE being

objected to at trial or pre-trial, and if this Honorable Court of Criminal Appeals

sees no harm in Morrison not objecting to or preserving his issues at that point, and

does not summarily bar his issues he now raises, then may this issue be moot. May it be
moot if this Court rules in his favor on one of his constitutional issues as well.

16) On page 72-84 the district court relies soley on the affidavits of Rogers and
Cantacuzene to discount Morrison's IAC claims in grounds 9-13. A review of exhibit
"E", and "N"+"R", and the Motion to Disqualify the Affidavit of David Rogers, and
Motion to Object to the Affidavit of Rodion Cantacuzene will show that the-district
court's claims are misplaced, and the statements made in the affidavits are not true.

17) On page 81-82, 84 of the court's finaings, the district court attempts to discredit‘
Morrison's IAC claims that Rogers and Cantacuzine did not object to or preserve»
the overbreadth, vaguness, and equal protection of laws claims. The court said
these claims were without merit and counsel for defense is not required to make
meritless assaults on the law.

MOrrison has indisputably shown formidable support that the strict liability
interpretation,(according to the United States and Texas Constitutional provisions,
Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit, and Court of Criminal Appeals holdings, precident,

' and logic) has made 22.011 unconstitutionally vague, overbroad, and it violates
the equal protection of the laws. (See Grounds 2-7). d
The state nor District court have made showings, that can discredit Morrison's
irrefutable claims that he has raised and proved with clear and convincing support.

18) On page 84-85 the district court, again, with unsupported claims, attempts to say
Morrison's Ground 14 (The Actual Innocence Claim) is without merit.-

Morrison has shown with formidable support from the United States.and Texas contitutions,

Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit, and Court of Criminal Appeals holdings, precident, and

logic that since the legislature did prescribe a CMS into the heading of_22.011, and

did not dispense with any mental element, that the intentionally or knowingly CMS should

modify all elements of the provision, including that the complainant was a child.

Morrison has also shown that the only way to constitutionally eliminate the

"intentionally or knowingly" causing the penetration of the sexual organ "of a child"

mental element is for the legislature to clearly dispense with the mental element,

which they have not done. Therefore, according to the plain language of 22.011 it is an -

element of the crime that the actor intentionally or knowingly caused the penetration

of the sexual organ of a child by any means. Morrison has also shown that the strict

liability interpretation has violated his equal protection of the laws, therefore, had

22.011 been properly interpreted to require the required CMS to modify "of a child", and,
his equal protection of laws rights were not violated as shown in grounds 2 and 5 then
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Morrison would have proved his actual innocence as the plain language and legislative
intent of 22.011 suggests. v
PRAYER ’

Upon reading the three Justice dissent (Keller, Price, Johnson) and the two
concurring opinions made by Justice Cochran and Justice Alcala in Fleming, and the
Justice Meyers proper statutory consé§ction dissent in Zubia supra¢ these six Justices'
opinions have strengthened Morrison's rationale that in circumstances like his,
regarding 22.011, that because he is imprisoned for not intentionally or knowingly
having sex with a child in the 14 to 16 year protected age group, and he reasonably
believed the female in his case was 21 years old, that he is being imprisoned
unconstitutionally. 4 n

All things considered, Morrison prays that this Judicious Court will see how the
Fleming case, they ruled on last year, compared to his case as stated in this Motion to
Object/Fleming Brief is distinguishable and not rely on the Fleming holdings to rule
against Morrison in his Post Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus. Morrison also prays that
this Honorable Court issue Writ of Habeas Corpus, discuss it objectively, and grant
relief as requested in Morrison's 11.07, or as they see necessary. Morrison prays that
this wise court will not base its decision on the one-sided findings of facts and
conclusions of law that was subjectively drafted by the district court, which he objects
to. ~ v \

INMATE'S UNSWORN DECLARATION

I, Jared Morrison #1747148, being presently incarcerated at the Huntsville Unit,
Walker County, Texas, of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, declare under s
penalty of perjury the aforementioned statements are true and correct.

Executed on:

Aprii 6, 2015 » ' %»~//L¢~/////f

ared Morrison élj47148
Huntsville Unit
815 12th Street
Huntsville, TX 77348

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cERTIFIcATE oF sERvIcE

 

I hereby certify that a true and correct carbon copy of the MOTION TO OBJECT TO THE
TRIAL COURT'S FINDINGS OF FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW/MORRISON'S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF
REGARDING FLEMING V. STATE 441 S.W.3D 253 (TEX CRIM. 2014) was placed in the prison
mailbox receptical to be mailed by U.S. First Class Mail postage paid-onApril 6, 2015
to the following : l

Clerk of the Court ..... Original '
Abel Acosta

Capitol Station

P.O; Box 12308

Austiny TX 78711

Clerk of the Court..,.. Carbon Copy
Benna Cain .

385th Judicial District

500 N Loraine Street, Suite 801
Midland, TX 79701

Attorney for the State

Mr. Petty
500 N. Loraine Street, Suite 200
Midland, TX 79701 ..... Carbon Copy

4/// 4//

Jared Morrison #F747148
Huntsville Unit

815 12th Street
Huntsville, TX 77348

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