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State v. Pederson

Citations

  • 840 N.W.2d 433
  • 2013 WL 6389745
  • 2013 Minn. App. LEXIS 109

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  • applying Fleck and concluding that evidence was sufficient to support conviction of fourth-degree assault (assault-harm on peace officer) where state proved defendant’s general intent to kick officer
  • rejecting appellant’s claim of an alternative rational hypothesis that she did not act volitionally to kick the officer but only hit him accidentally after he wrestled her to the ground
  • analyzing sufficiency of conviction of fourth- degree assault under circumstantial-evidence standard
  • “The defendant must have engaged in a volitional act and not merely acted accidentally.”

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Judges: Hooten, Hudson, Stoneburner

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