David Lawson v. State

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• concluding that, under Owen and other cases, the trial court plainly erred in not instructing the jury that it had to find that the defendant acted with a culpable men- tal state with respect to the value of property damaged for purposes of first-degree criminal mischief
• holding, “[i]n light of recent cases on the law of culpa- ble mental states,” that it was plain error not to instruct the jury that a culpable mental state was required “with respect to the value of the property damaged on the first-degree criminal mischief charge”

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