State v. Brunson

— Trial courts in three burglary cases instructed their juries that they may make the following inference: a person who enters or remains unlawfully in a building intends to commit a crime against people or property inside. Defendants argue the inference is unconstitutional. The court of appeals upheld the validity of the instruction, and we affirm.

Facts

Kevin Brunson

At 3:38 a.m. on March 24, 1991, a police officer found a three-foot hole in the front door of Agency Rent-a-Car in Burien. Inside, all the rooms were "in disorder," appearing as if "somebody had gone through everything.”

The…