State v. Ostrom

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an accessory after the fact is a person who “rendered assistance after the crime was complete.”
• holding no reasonable possibility jury misled by general instruction or reference to principle of general intent eleven times because trial court repeatedly gave clear instructions on specific intent required for manslaughter
• discussing the relationship between accessorial liability and a justification defense available to the principal
• upholding combat by agreement instruction when defendant’s friend urged another individual to fight with defendant and that individual then returned with his brother who offered to fight defendant’s friend ‘‘ ‘man-to-man’ ’’
• “another person’s commission of an offense is a condition precedent to the imposition of accessorial liability”
• “trial court . . . unmistakably described the defendant’s specific intent as an element of the crimes with which he was charged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).