State of Tennessee v. Linnell Richmond

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• concluding that error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt when “uncontroverted and overwhelming evidence establishing the use of deadly weapons and [the defendant‟s] direct participation in the offenses”
• holding that “a trial court’s failure to charge the natural and probable consequences rule when warranted by the evidence is constitutional error” (citing Howard, 30 S.W.3d at 277 n.6)
• applying constitutional harmless error analysis to the trial court's failure to instruct on the natural and probable consequences rule
• applying the Neder harmless error test where the trial court neglected to instruct the jury on a necessary element
• stating, “the jury is free to reject any evidence offered by the State, no matter how uncontroverted or uncontested a particular fact or element may appear”
• reversing based on failure to instruct on lesser-included offenses of felony murder

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