Wiggins v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the State had not submitted evidence showing the defendant had a weapon easily accessible and readily available at any point during the commission of his crime
• noting the State had not submitted evidence showing the defendant had a weapon easily accessible and readily available at any point during the commission of his crime
• “Regardless of the offense, whether the defendant is armed at the time a crime is committed cannot be answered in the same way in every case.”
• “The mere presence of a weapon at the crime scene may be insufficient.”
• “[without a nexus between the defendant, the crime, and the weapon, ‘courts run the risk of punishing a defendant under the deadly weapon enhancement for having a weapon unrelated to the crime’ ” (quoting Willis, 153 Wn.2d at 372)
• listing possible uses for a firearm in a drug operation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).