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Oregon Supreme Court· 9/29/1988

State v. Brown

Citations

  • 761 P.2d 1300
  • 306 Or. 599
  • 1988 Ore. LEXIS 546

How courts have described this case

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

  • the reasonableness of the defendant’s belief “must be a question for the jury” unless there is no evidence allowing a finding that it was reasonable
  • “The word ‘threat’ implies something that has not yet actually happened and requires a driver who attempts to rescue someone from a ‘threat of injury’ to make a judgment about the existence of that threat.”
  • “The word ‘threat’ implies something that has not yet actually happened and requires a driver who attempts to rescue someone from a ‘threat of injury’ to make a judgment about the existence of that threat.”
  • “Article VII (Amended), section 3, of the Oregon Constitution decrees that a fact decided by a jury may not be reexamined unless the reviewing court can affirmatively say that there is no evidence to support the jury’s decision.”
  • “[W]hether there was such urgency is to be tested by the defendant’s reason- able belief, and defendant’s reasonable belief must be estab- lished by evidence of the same criteria as that concerning the reasonableness of a defendant’s belief that there was injury or threat thereof.”
  • “[W]hether there was such urgency is to be tested by the defendant’s reason- able belief, and defendant’s reasonable belief must be estab- lished by evidence of the same criteria as that concerning the reasonableness of a defendant’s belief that there was injury or threat thereof.”

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