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•Causes serious bodily injury or attempts to cause the death of
the victim or another person in the course of the same criminal
episode;
•By acts or words places the victim in fear that any person will
become the victim of [human trafficking] or that death, serious
bodily injury, or kidnapping will be imminently inflicted on
any person;
•By acts or words occurring in the presence of the victim
threatens to cause any person to become the victim of
[human trafficking] or to cause the death, serious bodily
injury, or kidnapping of any person;
•Uses or exhibits a deadly weapon in the course of the same
criminal episode;
•Acts in concert with another who engages in conduct described
by [the sexual assault statute in Section 22.011] directed
toward the same victim and occurring during the course of the
same criminal episode;
•Administers or provides to the victim of the offense any
substance capable of impairing the victim’s ability to appraise
the nature of the act or to resist the act;
•Commits the offense against a victim younger than 14 years
of age; or
•Commits the offense against an elderly individual or a disabled
individual.
4. Victims of robbery and aggravated robbery
Like the other violent crimes listed in Sections 9.31 and 9.32 of
the Texas Penal Code, if a person is a victim or would-be victim
of a robbery or aggravated robbery, Texas law allows the victim to
protect himself or herself against the robber with legally justified
force or deadly force. Further, like the other crimes listed in these
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