Harrison v. Proctor & Gamble Distrib., LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• addressing whether trial court should instruct jury on statutory defense to felony murder in absence of request for charge from counsel
• considering court’s obligation to charge statutory defense to felony murder without request
• failure to charge the affirmative defense to felony murder when defendant did not request it was an error but did not warrant a new trial
• “[I]f a defendant requests a charge on the defense and there is a rational basis in the record to give it, then the court should give the requested instruction. ”
• applying clearly indicated standard to affirmative defense to felony murder
• relying on the defendant's trial testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).