State v. Meneses

¶1 To ensure that the State is held to its burden of proving a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, jury instructions must include every essential element of the charged crime(s). Telephone harassment requires that the defendant possess, at the time of initiating the telephone call, the intent to harass or threaten. Here, the jury instructions properly conveyed that temporal element. Meneses raises numerous other issues on appeal, including sufficiency of the evidence, double jeopardy, and erroneous jury instructions — none of which are meritorious. We affirm.

Grosse, J.

FACTS

¶2 In the…