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Christie v. State

Citations

  • 580 P.2d 310
  • 1978 Alas. LEXIS 671

How courts have described this case

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

  • discussing the rule adopted for jury unanimity in People v. Sullivan, 173 N.Y. 122, 65 N.E. 989 (N.Y.1903)
  • “[T]he included offense must be less than the charged offense in terms of its constituent elements.”
  • there must be “some evidence” of insanity before the defendant is entitled to an insanity instruction
  • “where a statute uses disjunctive language, the preferred procedure is to require an election by the state as to the particular element to be proved”
  • when “there is a reasonable ground of doubt in which of two or more degrees” defendant is guilty
  • 10 years with three suspended for a postmarital shootout

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boochever, Witz, Connor, Burke, Matthews

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47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

51 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Christie v. State

24 other CourtListener records share this case name.

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