Court Opinion

ID: 9691077
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 20:07:13.251206+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:09.907692
License: Public Domain

Cavanagh, J.
(concurring). I concur in the lead opinion’s reversal of the Court of Appeals and remand for new trial. In so doing, I join only in the lead opinion’s conclusion that “[t]he trial court’s jury instructions permitted the jury to convict defendant of murder without determining that he had a malicious state of mind in committing a crime,” ante, p 411, and with *412the lead opinion’s statement “directing] trial courts to refrain from using the erroneous instruction regarding malice even if the court follows this instruction with further instructions that clarify it.” Ante, p 403, n 16.
The challenged instruction irreparably tainted the jury’s deliberations. In my opinion, this erroneous instruction constitutes error requiring reversal per se.