Commonwealth v. Rightley

How courts have described this case

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• “Unless the conduct, while perhaps reprehensible, is actually designed to demean or subvert the truth seeking process, Smith will not apply to bar a retrial.”
• sufficient evidence as to intent to cause serious bodily injury where defendant struck victim in head with aluminum baseball bat
• appellant swung a baseball bat three times at his victim, striking him twice
• “The mere fact that defendant could have employed his ‘instrumentality’ more effectively, as the trial court intimates, does not preclude” factfinder from inferring that he intended to cause serious bodily injury.
• evidence sufficient to prove defendant attempted to commit aggravated assault; after fist-fight with victim ended, defendant grabbed aluminum bat and told his girlfriend “no one does this to me and lives,” before striking victim twice
• evidence sufficient to prove defendant attempted to commit aggravated assault; after fist-fight with victim ended, defendant grabbed aluminum bat and told his girlfriend “no one does this to me and lives,” before striking victim twice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).