792 So. 2d 886 - State v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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1. “The defendant in this case is charged in the bill of information with attempted second degree murder of Raymond Eady on June 15, 1985. Here is what the law has to say about attempt. Any person who having a specific intent to commit a crime does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended and it shall be immaterial whether under the circumstances he would have actually accomplished his purpose.... Second degree murder is the killing of a human being when the offender has a specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 835 So. 2d 434 - State v. Bishop

2. “Considering that the jury was erroneously led to believe it did not have to find specific intent to kill, we find the alternative hypothesis—i.e., Bishop had a specific intent only to inflict great bodily harm—sufficiently reasonable to preclude a verdict of attempted second degree murder”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 835 So. 2d 434 - State v. Bishop

3. “Second-degree murder is the killing of a human being: When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”

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