Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “There is no evidence in the record to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that [the] appellant was attempting to enter the building. Other reasonable hypotheses are that [the] appellant was engaged in an act of vandalism by bending or breaking the brackets of the air conditioner or was attempting to steal the air conditioning unit. Officer Acumia testified that he categorized the crime in his offense report as vandalism. Standing alone, without other evidence, the act of bending the brackets that connected the air conditioner to the outer wall of a building is not sufficient to show that there was an attempt to effectuate an intrusion into the building in order to commit theft.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Epps v. State