State v. Austin

DURHAM, Chief Justice:

T1 The defendants in these consolidated cases were tried and convicted of separate offenses. They each assert, however, that the reasonable doubt jury instruction used at their trials violated the standard set forth by this court in State v. Reyes, 2005 UT 33, 116 P.3d 305, because all the instructions included the statement that the State's evidence must "eliminate all reasonable doubt." We conclude that the instructions were permissible because the instructions, in their entirety, adequately conveyed to the jury the principle of reasonable doubt.

BACKGROUND

12 At his…