BIRCH, Chief Justice, dissenting. I dissent because I cannot agree with the majority of my colleagues in holding that the erroneous jury instructions constituted harmless error. To the contrary, I conclude that the instructions were indeed harmful and more probably than not affected the jury’s verdict. In instructing the jury, the trial court committed two errors. First, the trial court inst…
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