# Ex Parte Morales

> Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin) · February 7, 2007 · 212 S.W.3d 483

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9734823

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Santiago MORALES, Jr.
- **Court:** Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
- **Decided:** February 7, 2007
- **Citations:** 212 S.W.3d 483; 2006 WL 2032487
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Patterson
- **Judges:** Law, Patterson, Pemberton
- **Cited by:** 57 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding a statute that criminalized sexual conduct between a dormitory residential advisor and a student over the age of majority should be reviewed under a rational basis standard, which it met
- observing, in context of novel constitutional challenge to Penal Code Section 21.12, that “as an intermediate state appellate court, we must . . . defer to the authoritative pronouncements of higher courts that currently define the scope of the constitutional principles we app…
- recognizing that students are particularly vulnerable to teachers’ misuse of the “great trust and confidence [placed in educators] by the school, parents, and public.”
- explaining that equal protection clause requires that " ‘all persons similarly situated shall be treated alike’ under the law”

## Opinion text

JAN P. PATTERSON, Justice,
concurring.
Because I cannot join in the breadth of the majority opinion, I concur in the judgment only.

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