Kenney v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the officers were entitled to exercise their discretion to impound the vehicle even though they could have asked the defendant’s wife to come pick it up
• stating that “the trial court’s instructions should be read as a whole to determine whether they fairly and adequately submitted the issues and applicable law to the jury”
• noting that a special verdict form may be used to ensure that a jury is “unanimous on which type of conduct occurred” before convicting a defendant
• “Joining the majority of circuits that have expressed an opinion on the matter, we conclude . . . that assault on a federal officer is a general intent crime.”
• “[A] general intent crime requires the knowing commission of an act that the law makes a crime. A specific intent crime requires additional ‘bad purpose.’”
• “[A] general intent crime requires the knowing commission of an act that the law makes a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).