Court of Appeals of Arizona· 12/17/1996

State v. Noriega

Citations

928 P.2d 706
187 Ariz. 282

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providing that evidence of a defendant’s mental state must typically be inferred from the “behaviors and other circumstances surrounding the event”
providing that instructions need not be faultless, but it must give jurors an understanding of the issues and must not mislead them
court must evaluate whether instructions convey with sufficient clarity all legal concepts necessary to permit jury to arrive at lawful verdict
“[A] mere presence instruction provides a necessary aid to jurors in properly interpreting the acts of the accused accomplice and divining his true intent.”
“The purpose of jury instructions is to inform the jury of the applicable law in understandable terms.”
a defendant’s mental state is rarely provable by direct evidence and a jury will usually have to infer it from his behaviors and the surrounding circumstances

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Judges: Sult, Garbarino, Lankford

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