PEOPLE, BY RUSSEL v. District Court for Fourth JD

How courts have described this case

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• stating that it is not the role of this court to act as an overseer of all legislative action and declare statutes unconstitutional merely because we believe they could be better drafted or more fairly applied
• the term “extreme indifference to human life,” by its very definition, “does not address itself to the life of the victim, but to human life generally”
• second degree murder and first degree extreme indifference murder proscribe different conduct when second degree murder is a specific intent crime and extreme indifference murder is a general intent crime
• \an extreme indifference to human life is clearly a more culpable standard of conduct\ than recklessness
• “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life”
• where this Court adopted the Court of Criminal Appeals' interpretation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).