Crawford v. Emergystat of Sulligent, Inc.

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• although generally it is improper for trial court to provide entire statutory definition of intent when charge required specific intent, no error in context of particular case when jury not misled
• although generally it is improper for trial court to provide entire statutory definition of intent when charge required specific intent, no error in context of particular case when jury not misled
• not reasonably possible jury misled by improper instruction on intent when court repeatedly gave proper instruction
• ‘‘‘[m]andatory presumptions . . . violate the [d]ue [p]rocess [c]lause if they relieve the [s]tate of the burden of persuasion on an element of an offense’ ’’
• although generally it is improper for trial court to provide entire statutory definition of intent when charge required specific intent, no error in context of particular case when jury not misled
• although court provided entire statutory definition of intent in instruction, it repeatedly instructed jury that to find defendant guilty of murder, jury had to conclude defendant intended to cause death of victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).