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Criminal Law Keyed to Weaver
State v Maestas
Citation:
652 P.2d 903 (Utah 1982)Facts
Maestas allegedly robbed a bank. He then tried to escape in a van. A police officer was waiting in the island in the center of the road and waited for Maestas and the van to approach. When the van approached the officer fired his pistol at the van in an effort to disable it unsuccessfully. Maestas, as the van drove by the officer, hung out the window and fired a revolver at the officer. A few blocks away the van crashed into a parked car and Maestas was apprehended by other officers.
At trial Maestas was found guilty of attempted first degree murder. However, the court granted Maestas’s motion to dismiss due to the argument that specific intent to kill could not be inferred from the evidence. On the appeal Maestas argues that attempted murder requires a higher showing of intent than the crime of murder itself.
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