People v. Pickering

KELLY, Judge.

William Pickering appeals the judgment entered on jury verdicts convicting him of aggravated robbery, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, and commission of a crime of violence. As grounds for reversal, he asserts that there was error in the instructions given, that his tendered instructions were improperly refused, and that a pretrial photographic lineup was unduly suggestive. We reverse.

The defendant argues that the failure of the trial court to include in the elemental instruction on aggravated robbery the mens rea of “knowingly,” to apply this intent to the first three…