Legal Opinion
State v. Vernes
Montana Supreme Court
Decided February 16, 2006No. 04-409PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
¶1 Appellant Pamela Vernes (Vernes) appeals from her convictions for attempted deliberate homicide and attempted deliberate homicide by accountability in the Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County. We affirm.
¶2 We review the following issues on appeal:
¶3 Whether the District Court violated Vemes’s due process rights by excluding portions of her expert witness’s testimony related to the defense of involuntary intoxication that failed to satisfy the “more probable than not” standard for admissibility.
¶4 Whether the District Court should have instructed the jury to agree unanimously on…
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