Wilson v. Texas (original by judge keasler)
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Elisa Wilson was convicted of telephone-harassment conviction. On appeal, she claimed that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish that she made repeated telephone communications in a manner reasonably likely to annoy or alarm another. The court of appeals acquitted Wilson, finding that Wilson’s calls were neither repeated nor reasonably likely to harass or annoy. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that: (1) the phrase “repeated telephone communications” did not require the communications to occur within a certain time frame in relation to one another; and (2) a facially legitimate reason for the communication did not negate per se an element of the statute.
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