State v. Witherspoon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[D]efendant may have acquired the additional objective in [their child's] bedroom *** to stop [the victim] from taking [their child] with her as she tried to flee from defendant, [but] defendant's earlier and ongoing criminal objective to harass and abuse [the victim] continued throughout the episode.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 460 - State v. Taylor

2. “does not detract from the focus on the overarching criminal objective that is required under a proper application of the standard that the legislature established in ORS 131.505(4)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 460 - State v. Taylor

3. “[T]o accept that defendant's criminal objective changed over the course of the [domestic] abuse would improperly parse defendant's criminal objective.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 460 - State v. Taylor