Definitions
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Moore (2007)
Most recently applied in United States v. Molinar (November 2017)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Force" means any physical act directed against a person as a means of gaining control of property.
2. "In the course of committing" includes any of the defendant's acts beginning with the initiation and extending through the flight from a robbery.
3. "Property of another" means property of another as defined in section 13-1801.
4. "Threat" means a verbal or physical menace of imminent physical injury to a person.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.