State v. Bonilla

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring election between three acts of arson because they took place over three-day span
• the separate acts committed must be closely related in time or circumstances as to constitute one criminal transaction
• the separate acts committed must be closely related in time or circumstances as to constitute one criminal transaction
• conviction reversed where defendant was charged with one count of arson and one count of insurance fraud in connection with three fires over a three-day period
• “[W]here there is evidence of many acts, any one of which would constitute the offense charged, an election must be made.”
• “[W]here there is evidence of many acts, any one of which would constitute the offense charged, an election must be made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Cantrell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-02-10· cited 34×
• State v. Duff
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-08-26· cited 31×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-11· cited 29×
• State v. Vuley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2013-02-08· cited 19×
• State v. Gilman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-03-27· cited 17×
• State v. Couture
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-09-06· cited 16×
• State v. Holcomb
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-03-29· cited 15×
• State v. Corliss
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-18· cited 9×
• State v. Nathaniel R. Peatman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-03-16· cited 3×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. Damen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-09-27· cited 196×
• Burlison v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1973-11-19· cited 185×
• People v. Estorga
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1980-06-23· cited 88×
• Cody v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1961-04-05· cited 66×
• State v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-01-27· cited 64×
• Woodmansee v. Stoneman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1975-08-21· cited 40×
• People v. Alva
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-03-14· cited 36×
• Louis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1950-09-06· cited 25×
• State v. Barr
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1905-10-25· cited 19×
• State v. Willett
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1905-11-03· cited 13×
• State v. McDermott
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1977-02-01· cited 12×
• Adjmi v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1963-05-29· cited 11×
• Dugan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1961-03-22· cited 10×
• State v. Field
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1921-10-04· cited 6×
• Montgomery v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1953-11-20· cited 5×