Washington Supreme Court· 5/6/2010

State v. Peterson

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168 Wash. 2d 763

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concluding that \it is not necessary to draw a distinction between alternatives and definitions of alternatives where the crime at issue is not an alternative means crime at all\
\ We hold that the failure to register is not an alternative means crime. \
“ ‘There is simply no bright-line rule by which the courts can determine whether the legislature intended to provide alternate means of committing a particular crime. Instead, each case must be evaluated on its own merits’ ” (brackets omitted)
“The ‘elements of a crime’ are commonly defined as ‘ “[t]he constituent parts of a crime—[usually] consisting of the actus reus, mens rea [sic], and causation—that the prosecution must prove to sustain a conviction.” ’ ”
focus of the alternative means rule is on the juiy instructions
focus of the alternative means rule is on the jury instructions

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Judges: Alexander, Chambers, Fairhurst, Johnson, Madsen, Owens, Sanders, Stephens

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