Walker v. State
Annotate this CaseFollowing a bench trial, Petitioner was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor and attempted sexual abuse of a minor. The convictions arose from messages thirty-eight-year-old Petitioner wrote to an eight-year-old student professing his love for her. The court of special appeals affirmed the convictions. The Court of Appeals upheld Petitioner's convictions, holding (1) the lower courts did not err in holding that Petitioner did not enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy in his work desk for purposes of a Fourth Amendment challenge to a search of the desk; (2) sexual abuse of a minor can be committed by the exchange of non-sexually explicit letters and drawings; and (3) a rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of child sexual abuse beyond a reasonable doubt.
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