Legal Opinion
State v. Ottwell
Montana Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1989No. 89-428PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Turnage
*377Toni Lea Ottwell appeals the decision of the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County, revoking the appellant’s ten-year suspended sentence after her flight from probation. We affirm.
The appellant raises the single issue of whether the District Court erred in failing to hold that her flight from probation was justified under the necessity doctrine when the appellant alleged that her foster parent coerced her into a sexual relationship.
In December of 1987, Ottwell escaped from the Mountain View School girls correctional facility near Helena, Montana. When school officials…
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- People v. MerhigeMichigan Supreme Court · 1920
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