Legal Opinion
In Re the Personal Restraint of Mercer
Washington Supreme Court
Decided August 27, 1987No. 53334-2PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGoodloe, J.
By unpublished opinion the Court of Appeals granted the personal restraint petition filed by petitioner Terry Eugene Mercer. The petition alleged it was constitutional error not to have instructed the jury the State must prove the absence of excuse because sufficient facts had been presented to put the issue before the jury and that Mercer was actually and substantially prejudiced by the jury not being so instructed. We reverse.
On the afternoon of January 20, 1981, Kristal Mercer died following a massive blow which lacerated her liver. She was only 5 months old. She had been left alone that…
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