Commonwealth v. Rementer

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the defendant’s conduct must bear a direct and substantial relationship to the fatal result in order to impose criminal culpability” for homicide (emphasis added)
• directing this Court to consider (1) “whether the defendant’s conduct was an operative cause of the victim’s death[;]” and (2
• affirming conviction of third degree murder for appellant who relentlessly beat girlfriend; she was killed by passing car when she tried to escape
• defendant was but-for cause of his girlfriend’s death where she was hit by car after fleeing his assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).