State v. Schaler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “I can't recall specifically how I asked him. I, I know that you don't, it's part of my job to try to keep people out of the hospital. And when people tell me that they feel like they want somebody to die, or they want to die, I always go into the explanation that you know, there are times that I wish I were dead, but I don't have a plan to kill myself. I mean, you know, there are just times, and there's times that I wish my, my boss didn't exist, but I don't have a plan to kill him. And I kind of went that way, and I said "You know, sure, you might wish that they weren't there. Maybe you're [sic] life would be a little bit easier." But he said specifically, he wanted to harm them.”

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

2. “jury instructions given at trial, by not providing a definition of `true threat,' were deficient.”

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

3. “A person threatens `knowingly' when the person subjectively intends to communicate a threat.”

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