State v. Viernes

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that the legislative purpose behind the statute criminalizing the possession of “any dangerous drug in any amount,” is “to respond to abuse and social harm” and “to counter increased property and violent crimes” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• affirming the trial court’s dismissal of the charge of promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree as de minimis
• affirming the trial court's dismissal of the charge of promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree as de minimis
• stating that the court's decision \is reviewed for abuse of discretion\ and will be reversed \only if the court clearly exceeded the bounds of reason or disregarded rules or principles of law or practice to a substantial detriment of a party litigant\
• stating that the court’s decision “is reviewed for abuse of discretion” and will be reversed “only if the court clearly exceeded the bounds of reason or disregarded rules or principles of law or practice to a substantial detriment of a party litigant”
• upholding the circuit court’s dismissal of a charge as de minimis based upon the un-controverted evidence that .001 grams of methamphetamine was neither useable nor saleable and the circuit court’s findings of fact establishing that it had considered all of the relevant circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).