Second Court of Appeals

Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued Week of March 24, 2025

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State v. Sanchez, No. 02-24-00254-CR (Apr. 3, 2025) (Kerr, J., joined by Wallach, J.; Walker, J., concurs without opinion).

Held: The trial court granted Appellee’s new-trial motion on the basis that it had erroneously admitted two witnesses’ testimony in violation of the outcry-witness statute. Because the testimony of one of those witnesses—a sexual assault nurse examiner—was independently admissible under the medical-diagnosis-or-treatment hearsay exception, the trial court gave a legally invalid reason for granting Appellee’s new-trial motion and erroneously concluded that the admission of the other witness’s testimony had likely injured Appellee’s rights.