{"id":417986,"date":"2026-08-27T06:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:20:10","slug":"houston-man-acquitted-of-2020-bryan-sexual-assault-back-in-court-on-perjury-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417986\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man acquitted of 2020 Bryan sexual assault, back in court on perjury charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; 34-year-old Timothy Randall was back in court this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While he was acquitted of a 2020 sexual assault, he\u2019s now facing more charges this time tied to his trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Randall pled not guilty to Aggravated Perjury and Possession of Child Pornography charges Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The perjury charge stems from a trial back in March when he was accused of kidnapping a woman and sexually assaulting her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was found not guilty, but now a new indictment says he changed his story on the stand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Conflicting statements during his testimony, such as claiming to have never touched the woman sexually to later saying they had consensual sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The defense has now asked for a speedy trial aiming for October, but the defense and prosecution are still waiting for the transcript from the first trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prosecutors say they hope to have a conclusion before going to trial to avoid the survivor having to testify again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No official trial date has been set for the case yet, and not much information has been released on the child pornography charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prosecutors say the two cases could ultimately be split up.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; 34-year-old Timothy Randall was back in court this morning. While he was acquitted of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[254,2055,56,58,57,2060,2058,2057,2059,2061,2056],"class_list":["post-417986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}