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• Title: Washington V. Dent
• Author : Supreme Court of Washington
• Release Date : January 10, 1994
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 66 KB

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Defendants Dent and Balcinde were charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Both defendants were convicted at a joint trial. The two primary issues in this case were raised by both defendants. These issues are: (1) how the jury should be instructed as to the meaning of the "substantial step" element of a conspiracy, and (2) whether the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that venue must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Balcinde raised three additional issues: (3) whether the State presented sufficient evidence of a "substantial step", (4) whether the trial court erred in admitting Dent's out-of-court statements against Balcinde, and (5) whether the trial court erred in denying Balcinde's motions for mandatory or discretionary severance. We hold that the trial court's instructions to the jury were proper, that the State presented sufficient evidence of a "substantial step", that the issue of use of Dent's out-of-court statements was not properly raised, and that the trial court properly denied severance. We, therefore, affirm the convictions.

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