Lepage v. People

1 1 In this appeal, we consider whether the court of appeals correctly applied the presumption of regularity when it determined that the jury did not receive the correct verdict forms. The transcript here shows that the trial judge read the jury the correct elemental instructions and verdict forms, from which it can be inferred that the jury received the correct verdict forms. When the record was certified on appeal, however, one of the verdict forms was stapled to a refused jury instruction that was not given to the jury, raising the inference that the jury may not have received the correct…