Sutherland v. Kreisch

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the defendant’s act of possessing marijuana without a medical marijuana card was not necessary where the defendant had the alternative of obtaining a card
• “For a defendant’s conduct to be ‘necessary’ to avoid a threatened injury, he must show that no other course of action was available to him but to ‘choose an evil.’”
• “For a defendant’s conduct to be ‘necessary’ to avoid a threat- ened injury, he must show that no other course of action was available to him but to ‘choose an evil.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).