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FAILURE TO EXPLAIN TO THE JURY THAT ACQUITTAL OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BASED ON THE JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE REQUIRED ACQUITTAL OF ASSAULT FIRST WAS REVERSIBLE ERROR, NEW TRIAL ON ASSAULT FIRST ORDERED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing defendant’s assault first conviction, over an extensive dissent, determined it was reversible error to fail to instruct the jury that acquittal of the top count (attempted murder) based on the justification defense would require acquittal on the assault first count:

“While the jury may have acquitted on the top charge without relying on defendant’s justification defense . . . it is nevertheless impossible to discern whether acquittal of the top count . . . was based on the jurors’ finding of justification so as to mandate acquittal on the two lesser counts” … . People v Breckenridge, 2018 NY Slip Op 04074, First Dept 6-7-18​

CRIMINAL LAW (FAILURE TO EXPLAIN TO THE JURY THAT ACQUITTAL OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BASED ON THE JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE REQUIRED ACQUITTAL OF ASSAULT FIRST WAS REVERSIBLE ERROR, NEW TRIAL ON ASSAULT FIRST ORDERED (FIRST DEPT))/JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE (CRIMINAL LAW, FAILURE TO EXPLAIN TO THE JURY THAT ACQUITTAL OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BASED ON THE JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE REQUIRED ACQUITTAL OF ASSAULT FIRST WAS REVERSIBLE ERROR, NEW TRIAL ON ASSAULT FIRST ORDERED (FIRST DEPT))/JURY INSTRUCTIONS (CRIMINAL LAW, JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE, FAILURE TO EXPLAIN TO THE JURY THAT ACQUITTAL OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BASED ON THE JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE REQUIRED ACQUITTAL OF ASSAULT FIRST WAS REVERSIBLE ERROR, NEW TRIAL ON ASSAULT FIRST ORDERED (FIRST DEPT))

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