Opinion ID: 1172257
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Heading: To Convict Instruction

Text: Randhawa also contends that the trial court's to convict instruction, which we have set out above, was incomplete in that it did not require the jury to find that Randhawa's intoxication was the proximate cause of Dhadda's death. We recently addressed this precise issue and determined that the State is not required to prove a causal connection between the driver's intoxication and the ensuing fatality. See State v. Salas, 127 Wash.2d 173, 897 P.2d 1246 (1995); State v. Rivas, 126 Wash.2d 443, 896 P.2d 57 (1995). We decline Randhawa's invitation to overrule those decisions.