State v. Sawyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BEIER, J.:

On petition for review, Myoun L. Sawyer argues that his conviction for criminal threat must be reversed and his case remanded, because (1) the district court judge was required to recuse and failed to do so; (2) his jury was inappropriately provided a permissive inference instruction on intent; and (3) the district judge abused his discretion by refusing to read certain testimony back to the juiy upon its request.

We hold that Sawyer is entitled to reversal and remand under our constitutional analysis of his first issue. We therefore reach…