Defendant Christopher McCorker appeals his multiple convictions for robbery and confinement and his resulting sentence of 65 years. Our principal concern in this case is a jury instruction that Defendant contends, and the Court of Appeals agreed, relieved the State of its burden of proof by creating an impermissible mandatory presumption. Although we find the instruction to have been inartfully worded...
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