Ricca v. Brady & Gioe, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “jury could have inferred from the evidence that defendant’s objective in assaulting Lisa and failing to summon medical assistance was to cause serious physical injury”
• upholding conviction of adoptive father prosecuted on theories of both commission and omission for brutally beating six- year old child and leaving her to die
• pointing out that “the relevant force is the impact of the substance on the victim, not the impact of the user on the substance”
• “if intent is the governing mens rea (as it is here), the focus is on the defendant’s conscious aim or purpose—the objective—in doing particular acts”
• “The 11 people’s theory . . . was that defendant performed both acts of commission 12 (striking Lisa) and acts of omission (failure to obtain medical care) . . . .” 13 (emphasis added)
• addressing intent to cause serious physical injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).