Spartan Mechanical, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• characterizing child abuse as “a multi-purpose statutory offense that can be committed in any of several different ways”
• stating that when it is unclear from the record whether the jury found “separate insults” to the victim to support separate sentences for battery and fourth degree sexual offense, the court must view the verdict in the light most favorable to the defendant and merge the offenses.
• advising courts on how to instruct juries to avoid merger problems
• advising courts on how to instruct juries to avoid merger problems
• “In a jury trial, the solution…is the giving of an appropriate instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).