Hudson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that in Florida the focus is generally on whether a defendant’s actions are preparatory or overt and that the determination is usually case specific
• affirming the conviction of a defendant who attempted child enticement by writing letters to a \child\ who was actually an adult law enforcement officer
• “[T]he line between preparatory acts and overt acts is difficult to draw and tends to be case specific,”
• \[T]he line between preparatory acts and overt acts is difficult to draw and tends to be case specific.\
• “The substantial step ap- proach is authorized by the Model Penal Code. That model act has not been adopted in Florida, and it is doubtful we could utilize that approach in the absence of the model act’s statutory language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bist v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-09· cited 30×
• United States v. Adan Garcia-Figueroa
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-06-12· cited 28×
• Mizner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-12-03· cited 24×
• Hernandez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-20· cited 15×
• Batchelor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-15· cited 13×
• United States v. Jimmy Lightsey
  Eleventh Circuit· 2024-10-31· cited 9×
• Duclos-Lasnier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-27· cited 5×
• Hyden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-24· cited 5×
• Berger v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-11-16· cited 4×
• Wiggins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-08· cited 3×
• State v. Coleman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-25· cited 1×
• Mizner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-30
• Duclos-Lasnier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-04-01
• STATE OF FLORIDA v. JOEL DAVID FAY, JR.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-09-06
• United States v. Jimmy Lightsey
  Eleventh Circuit· 2026-02-26

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Reed
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-12-12· cited 42×
• Ward v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-09-12· cited 33×
• Van Bell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 30×
• State v. Coker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-07-18· cited 24×
• Morehead v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-08· cited 18×
• State v. Rios
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-09· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-02-07· cited 8×
• Styron v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-09-22· cited 7×
• State v. Smith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-01· cited 4×
• Archie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-09-05· cited 2×
• State v. Harden
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-04· cited 1×