State v. Aganon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “testimony about an incident occurring days after the alleged offense does not demonstrate any emotional disturbance with respect to the offense in question”
• concluding that it was error to combine two elements of the offense into one and instructing the circuit court to separately list the elements on remand
• concluding that the erroneous instruction was not harmless because it required the jury to find the defendant “guilty based on only one element of the offense so long as it was accompanied by the requisite state of mind”
• holding that trial court did not plainly err in declining to give an EMED instruction where defendant only presented \generalized testimony that she sometimes loses her temper in stressful situations\ and that the decedent infant \could cry a lot\
• “examin[ing the defendant’s’] remaining arguments on appeal” regarding the propriety of jury instructions given “[i]n order to provide guidance to the circuit court on remand”
• \examin[ing the defendant's'] remaining arguments on appeal\ regarding the propriety of jury instructions given \[i]n order to provide guidance to the circuit court on remand\

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