Johnathan Byrd, The Gathering Tree D/B/A Eden Village v. State of MO

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the legislature would not have under- stood “sexual contact” as a fundamentally consensual act, and therefore would not have considered consent to be part of the essential nature of the conduct described in third-degree sexual abuse
• explaining that the legislature would not have under- stood “sexual contact” as a fundamentally consensual act, and therefore would not have considered consent to be part of the essential nature of the conduct described in third-degree sexual abuse
• explaining the holistic approach used to discern whether the legislature intended the knowingly mental state to apply to an element of a crime
• explain- ing the holistic approach used to discern whether the legis- lature intended the knowingly mental state to apply to an element of a crime
• confirm- ing that conduct elements are tied “in part” to a defendant’s bodily movements, but also could include some elements that describe the essential character of the prohibited act
• confirm- ing that conduct elements are tied “in part” to a defendant’s bodily movements, but also could include some elements that describe the essential character of the prohibited act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).