Lee v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that because the statutory definition of “sexual abuse” requires acts that are a violation of Texas law, an out-of-state act will not support a conviction for continuous sexual abuse
• holding that defendant’s act of sexual abuse that occurred in another state could not be considered as a predicate offense in Texas for a conviction for continuous sexual abuse
• observing that one element of the offense is “two or more violations of enumerated penal code sections”
• clarifying that, for sufficiency purposes, “[e]ach predicate offense must be a violation of Texas law” so out-of-state sexual abuse did not qualify as a predicate act
• clarifying that “Texas ha[d] jurisdiction over the [continuous sexual abuse] case as long as one element of the offense occurred in Texas” but that, for sufficiency purposes, “[e]ach predicate offense must be a violation of Texas law” so out-of-state abuse does not qualify
• “Texas has jurisdiction over an offense if either a conduct element or a result element occurs inside the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Willie Hubbard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-02-14
• Christopher Shane Artz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-04-02
• Crenshanda Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-07-09
• Robert H. McCracken v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-08-08
• Ronald Edgar Lee, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2019-08-08
• Joseph Prestiano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-08-20
• Curlee, Dallas Shane
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2021-04-14
• James Tonkovich v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2021-08-05
• Danyett Danell Goodrum v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2022-02-02
• Ijah Iwasey Baltimore v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2022-07-27
• Michael Peter Nightingale v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2023-05-04
• Humberto Ortiz Balderas v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2023-05-25
• Juan Pablo Espinalcruz v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2023-12-13
• Kevin Scott Chatley v. THE STATE OF TEXAS
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2024-04-01
• Ijah Iwasey Baltimore v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2024-05-22
• Bert Lee Caudill v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2024-06-10
• Jeremy Martinez Jr. v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2024-08-01
• Ricardo Jimenez v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2024-08-28
• Joshua Clayton Kahanek v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2024-11-07
• Nathan Lee Wanner v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2025-09-25

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• Ramsey, Donald Lynn A/K/A Donald Lynn Ramsay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-28· cited 393×
• Thornton, Gregory
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 270×
• Crabtree, Mark Alan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-31· cited 147×
• Prudholm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-16· cited 76×
• Soliz, Jeffery Jay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-10-05· cited 52×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-13· cited 36×
• Ronald Edgar Lee, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2016-06-30· cited 1×