Wieland v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that Maryland has implicitly equated the MPC’s definition of “purposely” with the concept of “specific intent”; and Beattie v. State, 216 Md. App. 667, 682 n.6 (2014
• suggesting that Maryland has implicitly equated the MPC’s definition of “purposely” with the concept of “specific intent”; and Beattie v. State, 216 Md. App. 667, 682 n.6 (2014
• “If one shoots at the President, erroneously believing him to be a cleverly disguised foreign spy, one intends to shoot the President.”
• “A consummated intentional battery requires a general intent on the part of the perpetrator to hit the victim.”
• defendant was convicted of assault, battery, reckless endangerment, and handgun charges, but no issue was raised regarding merger of the sentence for reckless endangerment
• “It is a distinction that takes on critical importance most frequently in assessing the effect of voluntary intoxication on a defendant’s capacity to entertain a certain mem rea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).