State v. Shotton

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• in DWI prosecution, trial court erred in not instructing the jury on the defense of necessity
• issue in necessity defense is whether actions were “reasonably conceived by [defendant] to have been a necessity”
• “[I]t is not necessary for a defendant to admit that she committed a crime in order to avail herself of the defense of necessity.”
• denial of instruction on necessity was improper where the jury could have concluded on the evidence presented that the requirements of the necessity defense were met
• “[I]t is not necessary for a defendant to admit that she committed a crime in order to avail herself of the defense of necessity.”
• “[T]he jury could have concluded that defendant reasonably believed she was confronted with a medical emergency . . . and that her need for treatment, as she conceived it to be, outweighed the criminal wrong of driving under the influence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).