Pitkin v. Reibel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the pattern itself’ is an element of the crime of pattern AFSA
• in cases involving a continuous course of conduct, “the actus reus is a series of acts occurring over a substantial period of time, generally on the same victim and generally resulting in cumulative injury”
• “[P]attern sexual assault statutes ‘respond to special difficulties’ and are unique.”
• statute defining crime as A involving a continuous course of conduct does not require jury unanimity on any specific, discrete act, as that specific act itself is not criminalized @
• in cases involving a continuous course of conduct, “the actus reus is a series of acts occurring over a substantial period of time, generally on the same victim and generally resulting in cumulative injury”
• “[P]attern sexual assault statutes ‘respond to special difficulties’ and are unique.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).