Washington Supreme Court· 9/2/2004

State v. Teal

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96 P.3d 974

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affirming that “jury instructions are sufficient when, read as a whole, they accurately state the law”
stating that a jury need not determine whether a defendant acted as a principal or an accomplice in a crime if it is convinced that the defendant participated in the crime
deeming the \to convict\ instruction constitutional even though it did not contain an instruction on accomplice liability
deeming the “to convict” instruction constitutional even though it did not contain an instruction on accomplice liability
allowing State to introduce evidence of defendant's crimes of dishonesty to impeach defendant, in a case where those crimes were predicate offenses and defendant offered to stipulate to the prior convictions
“[T]he better practice in a case prosecuted on the theory of accomplice liability might be to include the language ‘the defendant or an accomplice’ in a ‘to convict’ instruction.”

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Judges: Johnson

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