Opinion ID: 1910607
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues relating to instructions to the jury

Text: A. Whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of felony or unintentional murder. B. Whether the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury that it could not find Jenkins guilty of capital murder committed during the course of a robbery unless it found that the intent to deprive the victim of her property was formed before the victim's death. C. Whether the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury that it was the final arbiter of the voluntariness and reliability of custodial statements made by Jenkins. D. Whether the trial court erred in charging the jury that no negative inference should be drawn from Jenkins's election to exercise his 5th Amendment right not to testify. E. Whether the trial court erred in charging the jury on the standard it was to use in evaluating circumstantial evidence. F. Whether the trial court violated Cage v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 39, 111 S.Ct. 328, 112 L.Ed.2d 339 (1990), in its definition of reasonable doubt.