John Hernandez v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• reversing based on an erroneous jury instruction because it permitted the jury to find the defendant guilty even if the jury believed his defense
• reversing where the trial court improperly declined to instruct the jury on the defense of necessity
• “[r]eversal is required if the jury’s decision may have been based upon an erroneous instruction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).