State v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “is ambiguous because the phrase could be understood according to Bowen's proposed meaning, property of a person, or the State's proposed meaning, all property that is not real property. Id. at 44 . The court of appeals then examined the phrase under two canons of construction, in pari materia and imputed common law meaning. Id. at 45 . The court determined that the canons of construction supported the State's meaning of”

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

2. “Whoever, having knowledge of not being entitled thereto, takes personal property from the person or in the presence of another and uses or threatens the imminent use of force against any person to overcome the person's resistance or powers of resistance to, or to compel acquiescence in, the taking or carrying away of the property is guilty of robbery....”

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

3. “our review ... is limited to a painstaking analysis of the record to determine whether the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the conviction, was sufficient to permit the jurors to reach the verdict which they did.”

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