POSTED: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 11:40 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

In State v. Courtney C. Beamon, which is at the briefing stage before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a convicted felon caught driving from the scene of a shooting is challenging whether the sufficiency of evidence presented against him should be measured by the actual language in erroneous jury instructions or by the statutory elements of the crime.