Petition of the day

By Aurora Barnes
on Aug 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm

The petition of the day is:

Issue: Whether the jury instruction—that the defendant’s actions were “evidence of [the requisite intent] . . . unless there is believable evidence to the contrary”—violated due process by shifting to the defendant the burden of producing “believable evidence” to show that he lacked the requisite intent.