Garden State Fire & Cas. Co. v. Keefe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a fact established by a criminal judgment was to be given conclusive effect under collateral estoppel doctrine
• “[A] plea-entry proceeding is not and does not purport to constitute a full and fair litigation of the issues.”
• when defendant claimed he intended to shoot warning, not to cause injury, court, stressing importance of compensating victim, said question of intent to injure still needed resolution despite earlier guilty plea to assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).