State v. Litzau’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “[a]n appellate court properly considers issues of statutory construction not raised to the district court in cases where statutory construction is essential to evaluating whether the evidence is sufficient to support a conviction. Even though appellant failed to raise this statutory-construction argument to the district court, we address the argument on its merits because it raises a sufficiency-of-the-evidence question, and the interests of justice require us to address it. If appellant's conduct is not criminal under the statute pursuant to which he is charged, then we cannot properly affirm the conviction on forfeiture grounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCoy v. People