California Supreme Court
Mar. 21, 2017
State high court upholds conviction without jury instructions
The state Supreme Court upheld the 19-year sentence of a defendant convicted of robbery, even though a trial court judge never recited the statutory elements of the crime to jurors at trial.
By Kevin Lee
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court upheld the 19-year sentence of a defendant convicted of robbery, even though a trial court judge never recited the statutory elements of the crime to jurors at trial.
In doing so, a five-justice majority held that the trial judge's failure to define a charged crime does not require an automatic reversal of a defendant's conviction. The result overturn...
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