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· 8/28/1975

State v. Gosby

Citations

  • 539 P.2d 680
  • 85 Wash. 2d 758
  • 1975 Wash. LEXIS 927

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting the old principle that circumstantial evidence also needed to be strong enough to be “inconsistent with innocence”
  • defendant convicted of negligent homicide ordered as condition of probation, to pay $7,500 as restitution to parents of victim; Wash.Rev. Code § 9.95.210 (1983
  • rejecting the use of the so-called \multiple hypothesis\ instruction
  • rejecting the use of the so-called \multiple hypothesis\ instruction
  • rejecting rule that circumstantial evidence must be inconsistent with innocence
  • rejecting the requirement of a multiple-hypothesis instruction

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Judges: Finley, Stafford, Rosellini, Hunter, Hamilton, Wright, Utter, Brachtenbach, Horowitz

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