Jury Instruction – Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//April 12, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: State of Wisconsinv. Nanci L. Gavin

Case No.: 2016AP4870-CR

Officials: Lundsten, Sherman and Blanchard, JJ.

Focus: Jury Instruction – Sufficiency of Evidence

Nanci Gavin appeals the circuit court’s judgment convicting her, after a jury trial, of one count of operating a vehicle to flee an officer and three counts of obstructing an officer. Gavin argues that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support a guilty verdict on the operating-a-vehicle-to-

flee charge; (2) errors in the jury instructions deprived Gavin of a fair trial; (3) the exclusion of evidence relating to Gavin suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) violated Gavin’s right to present a defense; and (4) the combined effect of instructional and evidentiary errors prevented the real controversy from being fully tried. We reject Gavin’s arguments, and affirm.

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