Lugo 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 the appellant had not been judicially awarded custody of the child, was not married to the child’s mother, did not have the mother’s consent to take the child, and merely possessed the status of biological father
• explaining that defendant’s belief that he was parent or relative of child “applies to a 13 portion of the affirmative defense to kidnapping, not to the elements of the underlying offense”
• “A mistake about the existence of a fact which would establish an affirmative defense to an offense, rather than negating the element of the offense, does not raise the mistake of fact defense.”
• ignorance of the law is no defense to prosecution
• ignorance of the law is no defense to prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mendoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-12-10· cited 41×
• Flores v. Johnson
  W.D. Texas· 1997-03-31· cited 5×
• Kenneth Wayne Rider v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-11-18
• Felicia Ann Mendoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-12-10
• Gabriel Rodriguez Pena v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2007-08-09
• Alfredo Ernesto Herrera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-04-18
• Tutankhamun Holt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-03-19
• Lamelvin Dewayne Johnson v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2022-03-31
• Johnny Lee Evans, Sr. v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2022-04-29

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Gallegos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-04-16· cited 11×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-14· cited 6×
• Bryan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1991-07-25· cited 1×