STATE v. SANDEN

No. 92-267-C.A.

626 A.2d 194 (1993)

STATE v. Christopher SANDEN.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 9, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Pine, Atty. Gen., Aaron Weisman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Richard Casparian, Public Defender, Barbara Hurst, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant.


OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal by the defendant, Christopher Sanden (Sanden), from his conviction of second-degree murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old child, Alexander Fernandez (Alexander). The defendant contends that the trial justice erred in three respects: (1) in failing to instruct the jury that the state bears the burden of proving the defendant was not so intoxicated at the time he committed the act as to reduce the...

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