People v. Dore

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the trial court didn’t err by rejecting the defendant’s theory of the case instruction because the instructions as a whole and defense counsel’s closing argument adequately informed the jury of the defendant’s theory of the case
• “The trial court may reject a theory of the case instruction which tends to be argumentative or calls attention to specific evidence.”
• “In determining whether the jury has been adequately informed of the defendant’s theory of defense, . . . [t]he court may also consider whether defense counsel’s closing argument fairly represented [the] defendant’s theory to the jury.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).