State v. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• refusal to instruct on diminished capacity was reversible error; generalized instruction on criminal intent was not sufficient to apprise the jury of the effect of diminished capacity on intent
• diminished capacity defense may be instructed upon whenever the evidence reasonably connects the defendant's mental condition at the time of the alleged crime with his ability to possess any of the four mental states described in RCW 9A.08.010
• diminished capacity defense may be instructed upon whenever the evidence reasonably connects the defendant's mental condition at the time of the alleged crime with his ability to possess any of the four mental states described in RCW 9A.08.010
• a specific instruction on diminished capacity is required when there is substantial evidence to support diminished mental capacity and the evidence logically and reasonably connects the mental condition to the inability to form the requisite intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pirtle v. Morgan
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-12-19· cited 323×
• State v. Clark
  Washington Supreme Court· 2017-02-02· cited 156×
• State v. Williams
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-06-05· cited 131×
• State v. Cienfuegos
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-07-05· cited 126×
• State v. Furman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 113×
• State v. Coates
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-04-02· cited 99×
• State v. Ellis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-10-01· cited 86×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-03-15· cited 80×
• State v. Norman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-04-23· cited 71×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-10-18· cited 68×
• State v. Ager
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-11-02· cited 63×
• State v. Gabryschak
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-08-26· cited 61×
• Tiegs v. Watts
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-04-23· cited 57×
• State v. Fisher
  Washington Supreme Court· 2016-07-07· cited 54×
• State v. Greene
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-09-30· cited 53×
• State v. Hansen
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-05-18· cited 38×
• Barrett v. Lucky Seven Saloon, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2004-08-26· cited 35×
• State v. Gough
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-03-15· cited 32×
• State v. Eakins
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-08-31· cited 30×
• State v. Ponce
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-02-02· cited 16×