What is the name of your state? Washington
Murder in the first degree--
In a to convict instruction,
is it allowable to give the jury three-(3) different alternatives/means or ways as to what the defendant did--how the crime was committed, and allow each juror to decide or pick seperately from the three scenarios and tell them they do not have to be unanimous in which scenario they pick so long as each individual juror can find/ each agree that the elements have been proven in one of the choices? "...each and every element in either A or B or C has been proven....."
is this prejudical /
reversable error?
Murder in the first degree--
In a to convict instruction,
is it allowable to give the jury three-(3) different alternatives/means or ways as to what the defendant did--how the crime was committed, and allow each juror to decide or pick seperately from the three scenarios and tell them they do not have to be unanimous in which scenario they pick so long as each individual juror can find/ each agree that the elements have been proven in one of the choices? "...each and every element in either A or B or C has been proven....."
is this prejudical /
reversable error?