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- Title: Buckles v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 16, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The major issue to be resolved in this case is whether a defendant, charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated driving under the influence, is entitled to have the jury instructed that it may consider the conduct of a victim who was operating another vehicle in arriving at a determination as to whether the actions of the defendant constitute the cause of death of that victim. Other issues presented and argued relate to the sufficiency of probable cause to arrest Donald J. Buckles, Jr. (Buckles) for driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor in order to justify the lawfulness of a test of his blood for the presence of alcohol, the results of which were introduced into evidence; the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the determination by the jury that Buckles conduct was the proximate cause of the death of David Stegena (Stegena) and the injuries to Maria Lisa Lucero (Lucero); exclusion of evidence of Stegenas use of controlled substances on the occasion in question; and the insufficiency of the record on appeal. We hold that the trial court erred when it instructed the jury with respect to the issue of causation and when it excluded the evidence of the use of a controlled substance by Stegena. We uphold the ruling of the trial court that admitted the result of Buckles blood alcohol test into evidence. In light of the reversal of the case, we do not further consider the issues relating to the sufficiency of the evidence or the adequacy of the record for review. The judgment and sentence is reversed, and this case is remanded for a new trial in accordance with this opinion.
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