Ironic/Hypocritical that there are 2 different standards for CYS criminals and innocent parents being robbed of their children.
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Appeals court overturns convictions of former CPS workers

• Brad Kellar Herald-Banner Staff
 
• Mar 28, 2018 Updated 19 hrs ago
 

 

• courtesy Hunt County Detention Center     
• The state’s highest criminal appeals court has overturned the convictions of two former investigators with the local Child Protective Services (CPS) office, who were accused of overstepping their authority when conducting searches in separate cases.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered both Natalie Reynolds and Rebekash Ross not guilty in Wednesday’s unanimous decision. “Based upon our review of the record, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, we hold that the evidence was insufficient to support the trial court’s finding beyond a reasonable doubt that (Rachel and Ross) knew her conduct was unlawful, which is an essential element of the offense of official oppression,” Judge Bert Richardson wrote in the opinion. “We reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and render a judgment of acquittal.” The Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana upheld the convictions in December 2016, after conducting hearings in Greenville. Reynolds and Ross were each found guilty — Ross in Sept. 2015 and Reynolds one month later —  of one count of official oppression, a misdemeanor. Reynolds and Ross were both sentenced to one year in the Hunt County Jail, suspended for two years, with 30 days in the jail as a sanction, along with a $2,000 fine and community service. Reynolds and Ross were indicted by the Hunt County grand jury in September 2013. Each received three indictments for official oppression and one indictment for tampering with/fabricating physical evidence. The official oppression indictments alleged Reynolds and Ross acted as CPS investigators to have subjected individuals who were under CPS investigations “to search and seizure that the defendant knew as unlawful.” On appeal, Reynolds challenged the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support her conviction; while Ross contended the trial court erred because there was insufficient evidence to support her conviction, that she was denied her constitutional right to a fair trial, and that she was denied her constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.
  In its rulings — which covered 15 pages for Reynolds and 16 pages for Ross, the Court of Criminal Appeals State indicated the prosecution not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that neither Reynolds nor Ross knew her conduct was unlawful.