S.M. v. Department of Children & Family Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ambiguity as to whether doctrine of transferred intent should be applied to crime of attempt to commit murder must be resolved in defendant’s favor
• noting that \we reject defendant's argument that the successful killing of the intended victim prevents the transfer of that intent to an unintended victim\ (citations and internal quotations omitted)
• rejecting argument that intent to kill may not be transferred to unintended victim when intended victim is killed
• following established rule that claimed improper jury instruction on element of charged offense appealable even if not raised at trial
• following established rule that claimed improper jury instruction on element of charged offense appealable even if not raised at trial
• transferred intent doctrine applicable to support three counts of murder even if defendant only intended to kill one victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).