People v. Wick

How courts have described this case

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• noting a farmer could legally burn a barn but be convicted of a Class X felony because a fireman was injured extinguishing the fire
• invalidating a section of the aggravated arson statute making it a Class X felony to knowingly damage a building by a fire that caused injury to a fireman or police officer at the scene
• “[W]e hold that the legislature’s failure to require a culpable intent renders unconstitutional subsection (a)(3
• the most direct means in achieving the goal of protecting the public from the dangers of arson would be to categorically ban the setting of fires
• the most direct means in achieving the goal of protecting the public from the dangers of arson would be to categorically ban the setting of fires
• “Because aggravated arson as defined by the statute does not require an unlawful purpose in setting a fire, however, the statute as presently constituted sweeps too broadly by punishing innocent as well as culpable conduct in setting fires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).