State v. Williams
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of criminal threat. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not err in instructing the jury on criminal threat by including two intended victims of Defendant’s threat, as naming two victims of a criminal threat does not state alternative means; and (2) the district court instructed the jury on alternative means to commit criminal threat based on two different mental states, and the State had the burden of providing sufficient evidence of both means, but sufficient evidence supported each of the alternative means instructed.
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