Van Loan v. State

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the court's failure to read the definitions of excusable and justifiable homicide in all murder cases constitutes fundamental error unless defense counsel \affirmatively agrees to the omission or the alteration of a jury instruction\
• concluding defense counsel did not waive fundamental error in jury instructions when there was “no indication that Van Loan’s trial counsel knew that the omission was error and agreed to the omission”
• \A trial court must read the definitions of excusable and justifiable homicide in all murder and manslaughter cases.\
• \A trial court must read the definitions of excusable and justifiable homicide in all murder and manslaughter cases. A failure to give these instructions constitutes fundamental error.\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).