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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA · 2017

United States (2017): youth pastor's rape convictions for two teenage girls affirmed on direct appeal and again on post-conviction review

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth pastor

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Appellate history

  1. 2018

    Direct appeal affirmed (2018 Ark. App. 231, 547 S.W.3d 753).

  2. 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.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority over teenage girls in his youth ministry

Primary 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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