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Criminal Law

Attempt

4 case briefs on attempt in Criminal Law, each with the citation in the book’s form. All Criminal Law briefs

  • People v. Rizzo

    People v. Rizzo, 158 N.E. 888 (N.Y. 1927).

    Are defendants guilty of an attempt to commit robbery in the first degree when they planned a robbery, armed themselves, and drove around searching for the intended payroll carrier, but were arrested before finding or reaching the presence of the victim?

    New York Court of Appeals

  • People v. Dlugash

    People v. Dlugash, 41 N.Y.2d 725 (1977).

    Can a defendant be convicted of attempted murder under Penal Law § 110.10 for shooting a person who may already be dead, if the defendant believed the victim was alive at the time of the shooting?

    New York Court of Appeals

  • McQuirter v. State

    McQuirter v. State, 63 So. 2d 388 (Ala. Ct. App. 1953).

    Was the evidence enough to send to the jury, and to support a conviction for an attempt to commit an assault with intent to rape, where the question was whether he intended intercourse with a woman he followed, against her will, by force or by putting her in fear?

    Alabama Court of Appeals

  • Smallwood v. State

    Smallwood v. State, 680 A.2d 512 (Md. 1996).

    Can a trial court infer the specific intent to kill, needed for attempted murder and assault with intent to murder, solely from the fact that a defendant who knew he was HIV-positive had unprotected sex with his victims during rapes?

    Court of Appeals of Maryland