Melissa Lucio v. Lorie Davis, Director

How courts have described this case

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

• conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm reversed because prior court’s failure to properly fill out order affirmatively “misled [defendant] into believing he could possess firearms’’
• \It is reasonable to believe a [15-year-old] would not necessarily know the degrees of crimes or how their crime may impair their rights.\
• “because the record is silent on oral notification, the assumption is no such notice was given”
• \It is reasonable to believe a [15-year-old] would not necessarily know the degrees of crimes or how their crime may impair their rights.\
• conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm reversed because prior court's failure to properly fill out order affirmatively \misled [defendant] into believing he could possess firearms\
• \Ignorance of the law is generally not a defense.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).