People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “While the inconsistent counts in Robinson involved the same culpable mental states at issue here, the defendant in Robinson — like the defendant in Gallagher and unlike the defendant in the instant case — was convicted for acting intentionally and recklessly as to the same result, the death of the victim. Thus, although the Appellate Division dissent in Robinson correctly concluded that intentional and reckless conduct are mutually exclusive “only when the two culpable mental states concern the same result,” the dissent overlooked the fact that the two homicide counts in Robinson did indeed involve identical outcomes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sweet v. Bennett