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STATE v. DAVIS

No. 19-0453.

975 N.W.2d 1 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Ethan Landon DAVIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 27, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, and Vidhya K. Reddy (argued), Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Louis S. Sloven (argued) and Scott D. Brown , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.

Christensen, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Waterman, Mansfield, McDonald, Oxley, and McDermott, JJ., joined. Appel, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

On further review from the court of appeals, we decide to address two jury instructions provided by the district court after evidence was presented in a murder trial. First, we decide whether a jury instruction that explains reasonable doubt in terms of "hesitate to act" should have been added to a jury instruction that...

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