Bogan v. Morgan City Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “ ‘evidence of a defendant’s intoxication is relevant to negate specific intent which is an essential element of the crime of murder’ ”
• no reversible error when improper intent instruction followed by numerous proper instructions on elements of murder
• one-on-one identification reliable where witness was in close range and had unobstructed view in well lit area
• “ ‘[a]n improper instruction on an element of an offense ... is of constitutional dimension’ ”
• no possibility that jury was misled with regard to specific intent element of crime even though trial court improperly read entire statutory definition of intent contained in § 53a-3 [11]
• no reversible error when improper intent instruction followed by numerous proper instructions on elements of murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).