State v. Benzel

How courts have described this case

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• finding evidence was sufficient to establish requisite “substantial step” for conviction of attempted murder where evidence showed defendant was in firing stance, appeared to point gun at victim, and victim heard gun click four times and saw cylinder advance
• one can be convicted of attempted murder even if the gun used to attempt to commit the murder was unloaded; the statute only requires that a defendant believes the gun to be loaded
• analyzing whether certification of in-state conviction complied with rule 902
• court records are official records under this section

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).