GLICKSTEIN, Judge.
The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, and the state waived the death penalty, whereupon the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 25-year minimum. The defendant raises a number of grounds for reversal. One of them, in our opinion, warrants such action; namely, the trial court's instruction to the jury. Accordingly, we reverse and remand, finding the instruction to be coercive in effect.
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