Court Opinion

ID: 9677388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:50:57.343341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:55.608449
License: Public Domain

MILLER, Judge,
concurring.
I agree with Judge Overstreet’s analysis in his majority opinion, and I therefore join that opinion. My purpose in writing in this cause is to note that the issue presented in this petition has been rendered moot by the legislature in its 73rd session, just recently concluded.
In this legislative session, the legislature undertook, and passed, a revision of the Texas Penal Code via Senate Bill 1067 (SB 1067). Pertinent to the cause sub judice is the revision made to § 22.011, Sexual Assault, specifically subdivision (d). Senate Bill 1067 reveals that the drafted new penal code deletes the defense to prosecution for sexual assault of a child that the child was older than 14 and had previously engaged promiscuously in sexual activity.1 Thus, under our new penal code, this defense will not be available to defendants, and the issue presented in this petition will not be recurring.
With these comments, I join the majority opinion.
MEYERS, J., joins this concurring opinion.

. Similar language was deleted from V.T.C.A. Penal Code § 21.11(b) regarding the defense in an indecency with a child offense.