People v. Leach

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• rejecting the defendant's assertion \that the evidence at best proved only the lesser offense of involuntary manslaughter in that he only acted recklessly in choking [his wife]\; the appellate court noted (1
• “the natural tendency of strangling another human being for three to six minutes is to destroy that person’s life”
• “[Djefendant knowingly placed his hands on [victim’s] neck and exerted sufficient force to first render her unconscious and eventually dead. Clearly, the requisite mental state of knowledge could be inferred from the very nature of defendant’s voluntary acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Maxwell
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2014-03-20· cited 335×
• People v. Leach
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2012-11-29· cited 124×
• State v. Sams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-09-24· cited 28×
• People v. Castillo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-05-17· cited 24×
• People v. Dobbey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-08-19· cited 20×
• People v. Lee
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-04-24· cited 16×
• People v. Pollard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-07-22· cited 8×
• People v. Miller
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-05-28· cited 8×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-03-05· cited 4×
• State v. Crane
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2014-08-25· cited 2×