Nguyen v. State (Original)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was indicted with charges related to the sexual assault of his daughters and subsequently pled guilty to two counts of injury to a child. At issue was whether Texas Penal Code Section 3.03(b)(2)(B) authorized a trial judge to order consecutive sentences when a defendant was originally charged with multiple sexual offenses but pleads guilty, pursuant to a plea bargain, to multiple nonsexual offenses. Because the court found that the statutory language was ambiguous, the court turned to its legislative history. This history showed that the legislature enacted this provision to ensure that defendants who, pursuant to a plea bargain, were placed on deferred adjudication for certain specified sex offenses were subject to the same requirements, disabilities, and punishments that had previously been applied only to those formally "convicted" of a sex offense. Therefore, the court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals, although for different reasons than that relied upon by the lower court.
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