Court Opinion

ID: 9722112
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:16:55.995136+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:30.670841
License: Public Domain

SACKETT, Judge
(specially concur).
I concur with the result reached with the majority. However; I agree with the defendant that wording of the instruction on compulsion could have conveyed to the jury that the defendant had some burden of proof on the compulsion defense. The trial court’s instruction contained the language, “Once the defense has been properly raised by the defendant, -” (Emphasis supplied). The insertion of the word properly could convey to the jury that defendant had to show he had correctly raised the defense. The word properly should not have been included in the instruction. I concur with the majority because in this case I agree with them that the defendant was not prejudiced by the instruction as given.