State v. Olson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the defendant in a DUI prosecution was entitled to assert the choice of evils defense based on evidence that he chose to move his car out of an intersection rather than leave it in a lane of traffic
• reversing where the trial court apparently applied the incorrect legal standard to the defendant’s defense
• choice of evils defense applicable to charge of driving under the influence
• choice of evils defense available to DUI defendant
• applying the statutory defense of choice of evils

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Fell
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-08-22· cited 67×
• State v. Rios
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-03-22· cited 22×
• State v. Nelson
  Montana Supreme Court· 2001-12-03· cited 8×
• State v. Riedl
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1991-03-15· cited 8×
• State v. Webber
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1987-05-06· cited 6×
• In re the Marriage of Haggerty
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2016-12-29· cited 3×
• Brooks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-09-18· cited 2×
• State v. Cespedes-Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2012-12-05
• State v. Whiteley
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-03-27

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• State v. Haley
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1983-08-10· cited 13×