Ortega v. Panther Siding & Windows, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• acquittal of murder \does not relieve the defendant of responsibility for having set in motion a chain of events in which death was a distinct possibility\
• although jury acquitted defendant of causing \ultimate death\ of victim, sentencing judge could still consider it as aggravating factor where defendant \set in motion a chain of events in which death was a distinct possibility\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).