Colby Skyler Guy Rideout v. Hallie Frazier Rideout

Summary

The Texas Court of Appeals for the Second District affirmed a protective order issued against Colby Skyler Guy Rideout under Chapter 7B of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The court held that legally and factually sufficient evidence supported reasonable grounds to believe that Rideout had stalked Hallie Frazier Rideout. The court also rejected facial and as-applied constitutional challenges to the protective-order statutes and related firearm restrictions.

Holdings

1. The evidence was legally and factually sufficient to support the trial court's finding that there were reasonable grounds to believe Hallie had been the victim of stalking, and therefore supported the protective order.
2. Chapter 7B and the challenged firearm restriction statutes were not facially unconstitutional, and the statutes were not unconstitutional as applied to Colby.

Questions Presented

1. Whether legally and factually sufficient evidence supported the trial court's finding that there were reasonable grounds to believe Hallie had been the victim of stalking and its resulting protective order.
2. Whether Chapter 7B of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and Texas Penal Code Sections 46.04(c) and 47.072 were facially or as-applied unconstitutional under the Second Amendment because they did not require an express finding that the respondent represented a credible threat to another person's safety before restricting firearm possession.

Disposition

affirmed