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State v. Murray

Citations

  • 539 N.W.2d 368
  • 1995 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 219
  • 1995 WL 628155

How courts have described this case

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

  • sleeping in an idling vehicle is “operating” a vehicle for the purposes of the OWI statute
  • finding sufficient evidence where defendant found “intoxicated and slumped over the wheel of his vehicle” with its engine running
  • “A person may ‘operate’ a motor vehicle’ without ‘driving’ it.”
  • OWI statutes are remedial in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McGiverin, Larson, Lavorato, Neuman, Andreasen

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