defendant that a crime was being committed and that a defendant knowingly and intentionally participated in or helped in the commission of such crime must be proved by the state beyond a reasonable doubt. if you find from the evidence in this case that a defendant had no knowledge that a crime was being committed or that a defendant did not knowingly and intentionally commit, participate, or help in the commission of the alleged offense, then it would be your duty to acquit that defendant. on the other hand, should you find beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant had knowledge that a crime was being committed and that a defendant knowingly and intentionally participated or helped in the commission of it, then you would be authorized to convict that defendant. a person shall not be found guilty of a crime if the act or omission to act constituting the crime was induced by misapprehension of fact that, if
misapprehension of fact that, if true, would have justified the act or omission. now, the law provides that a criminal action shall be tried in the county where the crime was committed. venue is a jurisdictional fact that must be proved by the state beyond a reasonable doubt as to each crime charged in the indictment, just as any element of the offense. venue must be proved by direct or circumstantial evidence or both. the defendants are charged with the offenses of malice murder, felony murder in four counts, aggravated assault, two counts, and false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony. i will now define the offenses for you. for malice murder, the state must prove that the defendant, one, caused the death of another person, two, unlawfully, and
and the delta variant is tightening the grip on the nation driving up covid cases and hospital admissions. the u.s. has now recorded over 35 million cases and averaging about 70,000 cases a day. late this afternoon, the cdc director revealed new data on the dangers of this hyper contagious delta strain. if you are sick with the delta variant, we estimate that you can infect five other vaccinated people. more than twice as many as the original strain. researchers at johns hopkins university have found five states represent 46% of new u.s. covid cases. earlier today, officials in louisiana offered a grim assessment of the situation. that state is set to break it s all-time record for covid hospitalizations. nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that
the delta variant wreaking havoc among among unvaccinated americans. louisiana seeing more new cases of the coronavirus, today, that at any other point than at any other point in the pandemic. louisiana s governor, john bell edwards, announcing that he is temporarily reinstating the statewide-mask mandate for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents, as many state hospitals are getting overwhelmed. it has become extremely clear that our current recommendations um on their own, are not strong enough to deal with louisiana s fourth surge of covid. in fact, nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. we ve, already, had three of these. this is the worst one we ve had, thus far.