United States v. Leighton Lee Fay

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a sentencing court “will not be presumed to have considered something [it] explicitly disregarded”
• \we find that the trier of fact could reasonably have been influenced by the trial court's failure to give such an instruction [on intoxication]\
• error not to give intoxication instruction when evidence defendant intoxicated at the time of the assault may have negated intent to do bodily harm

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