People v. Krovarz

How courts have described this case

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

• “We hold that a culpable mental state of knowledge suffices to support criminal attempt liability.”
• the defendant was charged with attempted aggravated robbery after he held a putty knife to the throat of a store cashier before another customer wrested the knife from him and then detained him until store security guards arrived
• the defendant was charged with attempted aggravated robbery after he held a putty knife to the throat of a store cashier before another customer wrested the knife from him and then detained him until store security guards arrived
• Liability for criminal attempt “rests primarily upon the actor’s purpose to cause harmful consequences,” not whether he “engaged in the harmful conduct or . . . achieved the harmful result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).