State v. Pedersen

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• determining that for attempted aggravated murder, “[t]he instruction directs that when an intentional offense is defined by a ‘result’ or ‘conduct,’ a person must act ‘with a conscious objective to cause the result or to engage in the conduct so described’ ”
• determining that for attempted aggravated murder, “[t]he instruction directs that when an intentional offense is defined by a ‘result’ or ‘conduct,’ a person must act ‘with a conscious objective to cause the result or to engage in the conduct so described’ ”
• “The essence of coercion is fear-induced compliance, i.e., the victim complies because he or she is afraid” (Emphasis in original.)
• “We cannot say the trial court’s instruction created an erroneous impression of the law or that defendant was entitled to his requested instruction.”
• evidence that victim was preoccupied with dealing with the defendant’s violent and erratic conduct did not establish that victim’s conduct was induced by fear of defendant caus- ing physical injury
• “It is not error for a trial court to refuse to give a requested instruction if the instruction given by the court, although not in the form requested, adequately covers the subject of the requested instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hendricks
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2015-08-19· cited 23×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2018-08-15· cited 21×
• State v. Powe
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2021-09-22· cited 10×
• State v. Summers
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2016-04-13· cited 7×
• State v. Durst
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2012-03-14· cited 5×
• United States v. Dunlap
  D. Oregon· 2016-02-12· cited 5×
• State v. Hirschman
  Deschutes County Circuit Court, Oregon· 2016-07-07· cited 3×
• State v. Wayman
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-03-19· cited 2×
• State v. McNair
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2018-01-31· cited 1×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2012-10-17