the State of Texas v. Taylor Ann Radke

How courts have described this case

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

• affirm-ing robbery conviction for purse-snatching, citing, among other cases. Commonwealth v. Sheppard, 404 Mass. 774, 778, 537 N.E.2d 583 (1989)
• upholding a conviction for unarmed robbery where, after the victim was dropped off outside her home and walked up the steps, “[s]he felt someone snatch her purse from under her arm,” “[s]he was stunned,” and, “[tjurning, she saw the back of a man running down [the street]”
• “The force the thief applied in snatching the purse was sufficient to satisfy the force and violence requirement for robbeiy”
• “[W]here the snatching or sudden taking of property from a victim is sufficient to produce awareness, there is sufficient evidence of force to permit a finding of robbery.”
• “[W]here the snatching or sudden taking of property from a victim is sufficient to produce awareness, there is sufficient evidence of force to permit a finding of robbery.”
• not manifestly unreasonable to forgo larceny instruction where the primary defense was misidentification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).