Bannegan v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “an individual who assists in or solicits the criminal conduct that will be committed wholly by someone else does not, and does not intend to, personally engage, * * * in the conduct which will constitute the crime” (internal quota- tion marks omitted)
• “attempt,” as described in ORS 161.405, is an “inchoate” offense because it “may result in a conviction even when no substantive crime has been completed”
• “attempt,” as defined in ORS 161.405, is an “inchoate” offense because it “may result in a conviction even when no substantive crime has been completed”
• “[W]e look principally to the draft commentary provided by the Criminal Law Revision Commission to illuminate [the legislature’s intended] mean- ing.”
• “Under Oregon law, liability under ORS 161.155 is a form of liability for ‘conduct of another person constituting a crime,’ not a separate way of committing the crime.”
• “[T]o constitute a substantial step toward commission of the crime, the defendant’s con- duct must (1) advance the criminal purpose charged and (2) provide some verification of the existence of that pur- pose.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).