State v. Plummer

Atcheson, J.:

Defendant Douglas Plummer challenges his conviction for aggravated robbery in what began as an audacious shoplifting spree at a Hutchinson Target store and ended in a slugfest with company employees. Because of instructional errors on lesser included offenses, we reverse the verdict of the Reno County jury — jurors materially misinformed on the law generally have a tough time getting to a legally sustainable conclusion. We cannot tell whether the jurors here would have come to another result had they received sufficient instructions, but they certainly might have evaluated the…