in the Interest of G.L. A/K/A A.L. A/K/A A.L.G.L., a Child

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• “[T]he better practice is not to require that a judge, on his or her initiative, instruct on [consciousness of guilt]”
• trial judge has discretion to give consciousness of guilt instruction even where no such instruction has been requested
• murder committed with extreme atrocity or cruelty where victim died from eleven stab wounds
• jury could properly find malice from evidence that defendant washed the knife and his hands after stabbing the victim, inflicted two less serious stab wounds on himself, and stood outside the door while victim lay dying on the other side

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