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Utah Supreme Court· 5/22/1987

State v. Johnson

Citations

  • 740 P.2d 1264
  • 58 Utah Adv. Rep. 10
  • 1987 Utah LEXIS 713

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  • holding that a third party was not endangered when a defendant beat his victim to death with a shovel handle on the other side of the basement
  • noting that courts must carefully consider \defendant's intent and knowledge of the risk and the endangered person's proximity in time and place to the murder\
  • “[T]he facts must include a knowing or purposeful state of mind vis-a-vis the creation of a great risk of death . . . .” (first alteration in original) (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Durham, Hall, Howe, Zimmerman, Stewart

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