State v. Crouser

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that parents do not have constitutional right to inflict upon children “force that the legislature has deemed to be excessive and harmful to the child’s welfare”
• holding “substantial bodily injury” as used in statute on justifiable use of force on another not unconstitutionally vague
• stating that a parent has a “privilege to subject children to reasonable corporal punishment”
• minor testified that defendant hit minor in the face and struck her with a plastic bat until it broke
• minor testified that defendant hit minor in the face and struck her with a plastic bat until it broke
• reinterpretation of extreme pain after statutory amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).