Gutierrez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““(3) Defendant objects and excepts to the charge of the Court as a whole for the reason that it is inadequate to safeguard the legal rights of the accused in that it wholly fails to charge the Jury with respect to the evidence supported defensive issue of Mistake of Fact. In this connection, Defendant moves and prays the Court will instruct the Jury substantially as follows: “ ‘It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief negated the kind of culpability required for the commission of the offense.’ ””

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