Wootton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the court’s findings, made in support of an adjudication for second-degree burglary that we were reversing, “are sufficient to support an adjudication for criminal trespass in the second degree”
• noting that the court’s findings, made in support of an adjudication for second-degree burglary that we were reversing, “are sufficient to support an adjudication for criminal trespass in the second degree”
• holding that it would require imper- missible speculation to infer that a person who broke into a vacant house had the intent to commit theft at the time of entry, where the only evidence from which that inference could be drawn was that he found a key in the house and took it
• “[W]e hold that second-degree burglary may be committed in two alternative ways: (1) entering a building unlawfully with the intent to commit a crime therein; or (2
• because there was evidence to support a lesser-included offense, reversing and remanding for entry of judgment finding youth within the juvenile court’s jurisdiction on that basis
• “If the trespass begins when a defendant remains in a building after authorization has expired or has been revoked, then we ask whether the defendant possessed the requisite criminal intent at the time of the unlawful remaining.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).