Jimmy Lee Clark v. Arnold R. Jago

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• noting that court failed to provide this mechanism to the jury
• jury instruction allowing accomplice to be convicted of felony murder if either he or principal had requisite mental state violated due process
• jury instruction allowing accomplice to be convicted of felony murder if either he or principal had requisite mental state violated due process
• reversal based on erroneous jury instruction permitting element of culpability to be found in defendant or accomplice does not necessarily imply that evidence in record of accomplice's intent was insufficient
• reversal based on erroneous jury instruction permitting element of culpability to be found in defendant or accomplice does not necessarily imply that evidence in record of accomplice’s intent was insufficient
• where purpose to kill is essential element of aggravated murder, jury instruction permitting that element of culpability to be found if either the defendant or his accomplice has the purpose to kill violates due process.

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