People v. Penajames

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that \it is not necessary to draw a distinction between alternatives and definitions of alternatives where the crime at issue is not an alternative means crime at all\
• \ We hold that the failure to register is not an alternative means crime. \
• “ ‘There is simply no bright-line rule by which the courts can determine whether the legislature intended to provide alternate means of committing a particular crime. Instead, each case must be evaluated on its own merits’ ” (brackets omitted)
• “The ‘elements of a crime’ are commonly defined as ‘ “[t]he constituent parts of a crime—[usually] consisting of the actus reus, mens rea [sic], and causation—that the prosecution must prove to sustain a conviction.” ’ ”
• focus of the alternative means rule is on the juiy instructions
• focus of the alternative means rule is on the jury instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).