State v. Rathbun

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a durational departure based on the factor of particular cruelty where the defendant was convicted of second-degree murder after repeatedly stabbing the victim
• “We need look no further than the fact that to slash and stab a person 23 times is to act with particular cruelty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stephani
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-06-11· cited 14×
• State v. Packard
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-05-07· cited 7×
• State v. Hanson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-05-12· cited 6×
• State v. Dircks
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-09-29· cited 4×
• State v. Sturm
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1986-08-05