State v. Knutz’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “RAP 2.5(a)(3). ¶ 23 Knutz contends that the trial court's failure to give a unanimity instruction violated her state constitutional right to a unanimous jury verdict and her federal constitutional right to a jury trial. Characterizing an alleged error as a violation of a constitutional right, however, does not automatically meet the RAP 2.5(a)(3) threshold for our reviewing even a constitutional error raised for the first time on appeal. To fall within this exception, however, not only must the claimed error”

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   e.g. State v. KNUTZ

2. “[b]y color or aid of deception means that the deception operated to bring about the obtaining of the property or services. It is not necessary that [ the ] deception be the sole means of obtaining the property or services. " CP at 39 (jury instruction 6) (emphasis added). This jury instruction tracks almost identically the approved language from Casey , which under Casey 's definition of "reliance,”

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   e.g. State v. KNUTZ

3. “in Seattle. I Verbatim Report of Proceedings (VRP) at 75. Soon thereafter he met Lisa Renee Knutz. On December 8, 2005, he loaned Knutz $470 in cash, the first of many such cash loans, [2] which totaled approximately $347,000 between December 8, 2005, and April 2, 2008. ¶ 3 According to Von Gruenigen, Knutz requested these cash loans for a variety of reasons:”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. KNUTZ