United States (2017): youth pastor's rape convictions for two teenage girls affirmed on direct appeal and again on post-conviction review
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Appellate history
2018
Direct appeal affirmed (2018 Ark. App. 231, 547 S.W.3d 753).
2019
Denial of post-conviction relief affirmed (2019 Ark. App. 104, 572 S.W.3d 458); the PCR panel expressly recites that the direct-appeal convictions were affirmed.
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
youth pastor
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Both opinions state the rapes occurred 'while serving as their youth pastor' — his pastoral role over the girls in his youth group is the charged mechanism.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2018-04-04 · conviction affirmed
Arkansas Court of Appeals (Jackson v. State, 2018 Ark. App. 231, 547 S.W.3d 753). A Garland County jury convicted Andrew Lee Jackson of two counts of rape for having sexual intercourse with two teenaged girls while serving as their youth pastor. He was sentenced to forty years' imprisonment on each count, to run consecutively. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
2019-02-20 · post-conviction relief denied, affirmed
Arkansas Court of Appeals (Jackson v. State, 2019 Ark. App. 104, 572 S.W.3d 458). The Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court's denial of Jackson's petition for post-conviction relief, reiterating that his convictions had been affirmed on direct appeal.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- pastoral authority over teenage girls in his youth ministry
Cited record
Sources
- official court judgment appellate judgment Jackson v. State, 2018 Ark. App. 231, 547 S.W.3d 753 (Ark. Ct. App. 2018).
Direct-appeal opinion affirming the convictions and sentence.
- official court judgment appellate judgment Jackson v. State, 2019 Ark. App. 104, 572 S.W.3d 458 (Ark. Ct. App. 2019).
Post-conviction-relief opinion, recites that the direct-appeal convictions were affirmed.
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- https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6241681/jackson-v-state/ Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment. SHA-256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6244006/jackson-v-state/ Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment. SHA-256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
- Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
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