Baldwin v. Estate of Winters

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that difference between reckless assault and intentional assault is simply one of mental state: “These are not different crimes but simply different means of committing the’same crime.”
• holding that although subsections [1] and [2] of General Statutes § 53a-61 [a] require a different mental state and degree of harm they are ‘simply different means of committing the same crime, namely, assault in the third degree’
• describing physical force and death threats used to restrain sexual assault victim
• when amendments to information changed mental states and types of harm for charges of assault and threatening, there was no impact on defense that incident had involved voluntary, consensual encoun- ter
• amendments’ effect was ‘‘logically dis- tinct’’ from asserted defense
• amendment’s effect “logically distinct” from defense asserted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).