State v. Elliott

The defendant, Elmer Elliott, was convicted of manslaughter after a jury trial in Superior Court (Nadeau, J.) and was sentenced to ten to twenty years of imprisonment. Elliott appeals the conviction, arguing that the court (1) impermissibly amended the grand jury’s indictment in its jury instructions; (2) erroneously defined causation in its instruction to the jury; (3) erroneously instructed the jury on the issue of intervening cause; and (4) erroneously considered victim impact statements in sentencing him. For the reasons given below, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

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