Wesolich v. Family Partners, LLC

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• recognizing that sufficiency review sometimes “involves simply construing the reach of the applicable penal provision in order to decide whether the evidence, even when viewed in the light most favorable to conviction, actually establishes a violation of the law”
• holding that a statutory requirement that a defendant knowingly commit an offense under the Election Code required the State to prove “the actor was actually aware of the existence of the particular circumstance surrounding that conduct that renders it unlawful”
• recognizing that, under § 1.07(38), a “person” includes a corporation
• observing that, for non-penal code penal provisions, “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity”
• defendant found guilty by a jury but convictions reversed due to insufficient evidence, including insufficient evidence of mens rea
• defendant found guilty by a jury but convictions reversed due to insufficient evidence, including insufficient evidence of mens rea

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