Legal Opinion
State v. Beavers
Montana Supreme Court
Decided October 26, 1999No. 98-113PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Regnier
¶1 Ronald Beavers was charged in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, with resisting arrest and criminal endangerment. He pled guilty to resisting arrest, and a jury found him guilty of criminal endangerment. Beavers appeals his conviction of criminal endangerment. We affirm.
¶2 Our decision is based on the following issues:
¶3 1. Did the District Court err when it refused to instruct the jury that reckless driving is a lesser included offense of criminal endangerment?
¶4 2. Did the District Court violate Beavers’ constitutional right when it did not allow him to cross-examine the…
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