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Utah Supreme Court· 2/9/1987

State v. Russell

Citations

  • 733 P.2d 162
  • 52 Utah Adv. Rep. 4
  • 1987 Utah LEXIS 648

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  • holding that a Utah jury need not be unanimous in deciding under which of three statutory sections the defendant was found guilty as long as the jurors were unanimous that one or another form of second-degree murder was committed
  • holding, with citations to other jurisdictions with similar holdings, that a jury does not have to be unanimous in deciding which of the three culpable mental states it finds in convicting of murder
  • applying three distinct analytical approaches to conclude that jury unanimity is not required on alternative mental states necessary to support criminal homicide conviction
  • applying three distinct analytical approaches to conclude that jury unanimity is not required on alternative mental states necessary to support criminal homicide conviction
  • refusal to give requested instruction that jury had to unanimously agree upon one of three statutory sections regarding mens rea did not deny defendant’s right to unanimous jury verdict in second-degree murder trial, where statute defined only one crime
  • refusal to give requested instruction that jury had to unanimously agree upon one of three statutory sections regarding mens rea did not deny defendant's right to unanimous jury verdict in second-degree murder trial, where statute defined only one crime

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Judges: Howe, Stewart, Durham, Hall, Zimmerman

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