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State v. Holmes

Citations

  • 920 A.2d 632
  • 154 N.H. 723
  • 2007 N.H. LEXIS 9

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the Lawrence Court ruled “that substantive due process precludes the State from criminalizing private consensual sexual conduct between adults”
  • “The statutes are designed to impose the risk of criminal penalty on the adult . . . [and] [i]n this way, these statutes accomplish deterrence”
  • “[T]he Criminal Code generally uses the term ‘purposely’ in place of specific intent . . . .”
  • “the Criminal Code generally uses the term ‘purposely’ in place of specific intent”
  • ‘When asked to reconsider a previous holding, the question is ... whether the ruling has come to be seen so clearly as error that its enforcement [is]... doomed.” (quotation omitted)
  • explaining principles of stare decisis

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Judges: Dalianis, Broderick, Duggan, Galway, Hicks

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