Ex-lawman guilty of woman’s assault
A fired Harris County deputy constable was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting a pregnant mother during a traffic stop last year.
A jury took less than three hours to return a guilty verdict against 31-year-old Brandin Glispy, who now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison when the punishment phase of the trial continues Wednesday in state District Judge Nikita Harmon’s court.
Glispy, who had been free after posting bond, was immediately taken into custody and held without bail.
During closing arguments, prosecutor Lauren Reeder told jurors to believe the account given by the pregnant victim, not the former Harris County Precinct 6 Constable’s deputy.
“He used his power as an officer,” she said, demonstrating how Glispy forced the woman to put her hands on the top of his car as he groped her and put his hands down her tights. “She was powerless under his coercion and control.”
Glispy pulled the woman over in the 5800 block of Martin Luther King while in his constable vehicle after 9 p.m. on April 24, 2017.
He testified that he pulled the woman over and searched her. He said the two got into a conversation and he told her to move her car, first to a well-lit parking lot, then a dark and secluded gravel lot on MLK.
It was at the third stop that he “searched” her again, and gave her his phone number to call.
The woman, whom the Houston Chronicle is not naming because she is the victim of a sexual assault, testified that after she was released from the third traffic stop, she drove home and called police to file a complaint against Glispy.
In court, he acknowledged that he gave the woman his personal cellphone number and told her to call him.