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D.J. v. State

Citations

  • 651 So. 2d 1255
  • 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 2488

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that the doctrine of transferred intent is a legal fiction which operates to transfer a defendant's intent as to the intended victim to an unintended victim
  • recognizing that the doctrine of transferred intent is a legal fiction which operates to transfer a defendant’s intent as to the intended victim to an unintended victim
  • explaining that “only the appellant’s intent to strike his opponent — a student — could be transferred, and there could be no intent to strike a school employee”
  • where juvenile's intent was only to strike student, doctrine could not support finding of guilt of attempted battery upon school employee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ervin, Miner, Wolf

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