State v. Corliss

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the allowance of lesser non-included offense instructions “is followed in only a minority of jurisdictions”
• affirming court’s “consideration of traditional common law factors such as punishment, deterrence, or rehabilitation”
• explaining “an offense will be treated as a lesser-included offense only if each of its elements is always a necessary element of the greater offense” (quotations omitted)
• “Trial courts have wide discretion in imposing penalties, and we will not reverse unless the court strays from statutory limits or abuses its discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).