Ortagus v. State

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• blanket assertion by trial court insufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that family members who witnessed victim's shooting suffered emotional trauma
• reversible error where trial court's instruction on manslaughter failed to cover material elements of the offense and defendant asserted self-defense theory
• evidence insufficient to establish that more than one family member saw shooting; no testimony going to the question of the witness' emotional trauma; thus no facts to support trial court's reason for upward departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).