Hutchison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on United States v. Wilson · United States v. Bourassa · Neitzel v. State · United States v. Bright · United States v. Sherwood
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] defendant willfully fails to appear if, in the absence of some legally recognized justification or excuse, the defendant makes a deliberate decision to disobey a known obligation to appear in court (including instances of "willful blindness", where the defendant engages in conduct designed to avoid notice of the court date).... [The government need not prove that the defendant acted with the conscious aim or purpose of causing a particular result[, but] the government must prove ... that the defendant's purpose was to disobey or disregard the court's order to appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moffitt v. State“, where the defendant engages in conduct designed to avoid notice of the court date).... [The government need not prove that the defendant acted with the conscious aim or purpose of causing a particular result[, but] the government must prove ... that the defendant's purpose was to disobey or disregard the court's order to appear. Hutchison, 27 P.3d at 780 . Having construed the statute in this manner, we concluded that the trial judge should have acquitted Hutchison of failing to appear: Based on [Hutchison's] testimony, [the trial judge] declared that he”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moffitt v. State“Having surveyed these two lines of cases, we concluded in Hutchison that the crime of failure to appear codified in AS 12.80.060 requires proof of this same culpable mental state: [A] defendant willfully fails to appear if, in the absence of some legally recognized justification or excuse, the defendant makes a deliberate decision to disobey a known obligation to appear in court (including instances of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moffitt v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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