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State v. Smith

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  • 835 N.W.2d 1
  • 2013 WL 4082337
  • 2013 Minn. LEXIS 373

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  • declining to hold a victim's refusal of medical care could never as a matter of law be a superseding cause of death, Court finds evidence was sufficient at trial for jury to find a DNR order was not a superseding cause of victim's death
  • “In order to prove proximate cause, the [s]tate must show that the defendant’s acts were a substantial factor in causing the death.”

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Judges: Been, Consideration, Lillehaug, Submission, Took, Wright

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