Longval v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that witness testimony describing the conversation on a surveillance video in evidence was admissible over hearsay objection because it de scribed and gave significance to the ambiguous conduct on the videotape
• to discern legislative intent requires consideration of, among other things, “the evil to be corrected”
• “In determining whether to give a requested instruction, the trial court should consider the evidence presented without weighing it, as the latter is a task for the jury.”
• “The current wording does not limit the defense to 'this section.’ The language is broad enough to embrace substantive crimes, like theft, that include attempts within their definition.”
• “Since the legislature has expanded the defense of abandonment to apply to ‘criminal attempts,’ we believe the defense applies where the legislature defines a substantive crime to include an attempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).