STATE v. TORRENCE

No. 90-016.

134 N.H. 24 (1991)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. JAMES TORRENCE

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Arnold, attorney general (David S. Peck, senior assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

W. Kirk Abbott, Jr., assistant appellate defender, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


BROCK, C.J.

The defendant, James Torrence, was convicted of robbery (RSA 636:1, I), following a jury trial in the Superior Court (Barry, J.). He brings this appeal, arguing that the trial court erred in three ways: first, in permitting evidence of flight to go before the jury; second, in instructing the jury on a lesser-included offense without having a rational basis to do so; and, finally, by "repeatedly" repolling the jury until each juror announced a verdict...

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