Court Opinion

ID: 9733536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:10:08.478543+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:42.221618
License: Public Domain

YETKA, Justice
(dissenting).
In this case, we have a situation where a policeman acknowledged a threat and entered that threat in his police report, but didn’t pass it on to his brother. It seems to me that there was a duty to pass on this threat to the brother. The trial court, in effect, did rule, as a matter of law, that there was a duty to do so when it denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss and gave instructions on the case to the jury. Can we say that the brother would not have acted more carefully when approaching the house had he known of the existing threat?
I think the trial court acted carefully here and acted within its discretion in giving the instructions that it did. I would affirm.