621 So. 2d 94 - State v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 827 So. 2d 488 - State v. Murray (2002), 942 So. 2d 658 - State v. Woods (2006)
53 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kliewer v. New Jersey · United States v. Eichman · 436 So. 2d 471 - State v. Sutton · State v. Williams
Most-quoted passages
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“Based upon the physical evidence, the crime scene photographs, defendant's admission (that he picked up the 12 gauge shotgun and fired it in the direction of the victim's backside at close range from waist level as the victim was exiting the door), and defendant's pounding the table and telling the police that "no m_____r f_____r is going to come in my house and hit me," any rational trier of fact could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that this shooting was not accidental, but rather one with the specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm. In returning a guilty verdict, it is obvious the majority of the jury concluded that the evidence proved the requisite element of specific intent for second degree murder. Once that conclusion was reached, it foreclosed the alternative theory of a manslaughter without specific intent based on the commission of the offense of illegal use of a weapon. This left the jurors with the remaining decision of determining whether the homicide should be reduced from second degree murder to manslaughter committed in sudden passion or heat of blood. It is obvious the majority of the jury concluded this homicide was not committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self-control and cool reflection; or that, if there was such provocation, defendant's blood had actually cooled, or an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was commit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are not elements of the crime of manslaughter; rather, they are mitigatory facts in the nature of a defense which exhibit a degree of culpability less than that present when the homicide is committed without them. State v. Lombard, 486 So.2d 106 (La.1986); State v. Ruff, 504 So.2d 72 (La.App. 2d Cir.1987), writ denied, 508 So.2d 64 (La.1987). Therefore, a defendant who establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that he acted in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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