Vega, Jose Luis Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “once the jury is charged on a defensive issue, a flaw in that charge is error”
• stating that where charge error has been preserved reversal is required if the appellant suffered “some harm” from the error
• stating that a trial judge has no duty to sua sponte instruct the jury on unrequested defensive issues and one cannot complain on appeal about their absence unless requested
• re-affirming the holding in Posey that it is not error for the trial court to fail to instruct the jury sua sponte on “defensive issues”
• \The trial judge is ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the jury charge and accompanying instructions.\
• absent proper request, defendant “cannot complain on appeal about the trial [court’s] failure to include a defensive instruction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).