AUSTIN, TEXAS —
A Texas district legal professional has rejected a felony sexual assault cost filed earlier this 12 months by Austin police towards the son of former bike owner Lance Armstrong.
Luke Armstrong was charged in April associated to an incident in 2018. A lady instructed police in November 2020 that she was assaulted by Luke Armstrong after he drove her from a celebration to his father’s home in Austin. As a result of she was 16 on the time and he was 18, Luke Armstrong was charged with sexual assault of kid. He had been free on a private bond.
In line with on-line Travis County courtroom data, the case was recorded as “DA Rejection/No Costs Filed” on Aug. 24. Travis County District Legal professional Jose Garza’s workplace on Monday confirmed the cost was dismissed and declined additional remark.
“Luke and his household are delighted with the result and sit up for clearing his title due to this baseless allegation,” Armstrong legal professional Randy Leavitt mentioned.
“We introduced robust proof to the district legal professional’s workplace exhibiting that the connection between the 2 younger individuals was fully consensual and consequently didn’t represent a legal offense,” Leavitt mentioned. “Luke handed two impartial polygraph exams with the perfect examiners within the state exhibiting that he didn’t use any power or threats to realize consent.”
Lance Armstrong gained the Tour de France seven instances earlier than he was stripped of these titles following revelations he used performance-enhancing medicine for a lot of his profession.
In line with the arrest affidavit issued April 1, the lady instructed police she met Luke Armstrong in June 2018, and that she was intoxicated at a celebration two days later when she referred to as him to choose her up. She instructed police she did not bear in mind the journey however awoke in his home the place she instructed police he sexually assaulted her after which drove her house.
She later made a recorded name to Armstrong in December 2020, throughout which Armstrong admitted to having intercourse along with her at his father’s home a number of years earlier, the affidavit mentioned.
The lady instructed police she knowledgeable six people who Armstrong had intercourse along with her. 4 of them remembered the lady describing the intercourse as nonconsensual, the affidavit mentioned. One instructed police she interpreted what occurred as consensual.
Leavitt beforehand mentioned the connection between Luke Armstrong and the lady continued after the incident in query.
Luke Armstrong was a reserve fullback on the Rice College soccer staff in 2018-19. He opted out of the 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic and didn’t return this season.
