State v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1984
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Wilkerson · State v. Handley · State v. Gardner
Most-quoted passages
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“e. Subject to a-c above, if murder in the first degree is the highest homicide submitted, the court must give the following instruction: MAI-CR 15.18 on conventional manslaughter. The court must also give either one or both of the following instructions which are justified by the evidence: MAI-CR 15.14 on conventional second degree murder, and MAI-CR 15.16 on any second degree felony-murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee
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