State v. Cruz-Ramirez

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that premeditation to murder may be inferred where there is “(1) planning activity shown by the defendant’s actions prior to the actual killing; (2) motive inferred from the defendant’s prior relationship with the victim; or (3
• noting that, appellate courts review the imposition of multiple and consecutive sentences when multiple victims are involved under the abuse-of-discretion standard, and multiple sentences will be upheld so long as they do not unfairly exaggerate the criminality of the conduct
• “The State does not object to vacating the [unsentenced] convictions, but asks us to note that the underlying guilty verdicts remain in force.”
• “Intent [to murder] may be inferred from the manner of the killing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).