State v. Trautloff

How courts have described this case

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

• finding overbreadth where the jury instruction allowed the jury to convict the defendant of \displaying or procuring or producing\ explicit photographs or videos of a child but the State only charged defendant with \displaying\ such videos
• charging document must specify tire offense “in order to inform the defendant of the nature of the accusation . . . and to protect the defendant from being convicted on the basis of facts that were not contemplated in the initial charges”
• appellate court will not read into plain and unambiguous statute something not readily found in it; criminal statutes strictly construed in favor of accused
• “As a general rule, courts should read statutes to avoid unreasonable results and should presume that the legislature does not intend to enact useless or meaningless legislation.”
• “[C]ourts should read statutes to avoid unreasonable results and should presume that the legislature does not intend to enact useless or meaningless legislation.”
• juiy instruction stating “the elements of a crime that is broader than the complaint charging the crime is erroneous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).