People v. Biers

How courts have described this case

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

• \The use of affirmative defenses is thus more a matter of convenience than anything else and does not violate the defendant's right to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt\ as the State is still required to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue.
• “The use of affirmative defenses is thus more a matter of convenience than anything else and does not violate the -4- defendant’s right to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” as the State is still required to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).