Opinion
NORCOTT, J.
The principal issue in this certified appeal is whether the trial court's instructions to the jury improperly imposed on the jury a mandatory presumption, thereby shifting the burden of proof from the state to the defendant and depriving the defendant of a constitutionally fair trial. Although the trial court's instructions contained language that we have used in the past, the defendant claims that this language was improper in...
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