State v. Williams

¶1 Ajury convicted Demetrius Williams of bail jumping based on the underlying charge of possession of a controlled substance. In this appeal, he asks us to hold that the penalty classification of either the bail jumping charge or the underlying charge is an essential element of bail jumping that must be included in the information charging the crime and in the instruction telling the jury what it must find to convict the defendant. But the penalty classification is relevant only to the sentence to be imposed on conviction, a topic the jury is not even permitted to consider in its…