96 Wash. App. 654 - State v. Atsbeha’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “[I]f Atsbeha believed that he was helping the police capture a `main' drug dealer, that belief—even though irrationally formed because of the very nature of his profound disorder—would indeed negate specific intent, that is, acting with the objective to produce a result that constitutes a crime, even though Atsbeha could, according to Dr. Rose, respond to a request to do a physical act, that is, to buy something and give it to another person right away.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Atsbeha · State v. Atsbeha

2. “If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Atsbeha · State v. Atsbeha

3. ““Relevant evidence” means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

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