ways, provided you, the jury, believe that it existed from proven facts before you. it may be inferred from the proven circumstances or by acts and conduct, or it may be in your discretion inferred when it is the natural and necessary consequence of the act. whether or not you draw such an inference is a matter solely within your discretion. criminal intent does not mean an intention to violate the law or to violate a penal statute but means simply the intention to commit the act that is prohibited by the statute. the defendants will not be presumed to have acted with criminal intent, but you may find such an intention upon a consideration of words, conduct, demeanor, motive, and other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused are being prosecuted. now, every party to a crime may be charged with and continue viktded of commission of the crime. a person is a party to a crime only if that person, a, directly commits the crime, b, intentionally helps in the comm
take a look at this. he told you he s not going to chase or investigate someone who is armed. and yet all he talked about was, well, he kept reaching in his pants, he kept reaching in his pocket. well, did you think he was armed or not? then what d he tell you? this is what i was thinking. mr. arbery may have run by, maybe matt had seen him. maybe he has broken in. maybe larry english is over at 220. i don t know. maybe ahmaud arbery was caught. maybe ahmaud arbery is running from the police. these are all maybes. he doesn t know anything. these are all the maybes he testified to. he said he assumed he was committing a crime. that s what he said on the stand. remember, i wrote it out. you said, you assumed you were committing a crime. i went down there to see if it was him. then he said, i don t know. i don t know what he did that day. i don t know. then he wanted to talk about his totality of the circumstances and all that stuff that he knew that was going to allow him to do
intent may be shown in many ways, provided you the jury believe it existed from the proven facts before you. it may be inferred from the proven circumstances or by acts and conduct, or it may be in your discretion inferred when it is the natural and necessary consequence of the act. whether or not you draw such an inference is a matter solely within your discretion. criminal intent does not mean an intention to violate the law or to violate a penal statute, but means simply the intention to commit the act that is prohibited by the statute. the defendants will not be presumed to have acted with criminal intent, but you may find such an intention upon consideration of words, conduct, demeanor, motive and other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused or being prosecuted. now, every party to a crime may be charged with and on victimed of commission of the crime. a person is a party to a crime only if that person, a, directly commits the crime, b, intentionally
Played for you for legal reasons. you are not to make any inferences for or against either party in the case about the fact that the law does not allow the playing of certain recordings by the parties in this case. now, evidence of prior difficulties or lack thereof between one or more of the defendants and mr. arbery has been admitted for the sole purpose of illustrating, if it does, the state of feeling between the defendants and mr. arbery and reasonableness of any alleged fears by the defendants or mr. arbery. whether this evidence illustrates such matters is a matter for you the jury to determine. but you are not to consider such evidence for any other purposes. certain evidence of fingerprint comparison has been admitted by the court for your possible consideration. identification by fingerprint comparison is opinion evidence
And is dependent on the credibility or believability or accuracy of the expert witness called for that purpose as well as the following factors. one, the validity of the theory of identification by fingerprint comparison. two, the credibility of the witness who performs other necessary functions in making the comparison, such as inked finger impressions and latent lifts. and, three, the accuracy of procedures in identifying, preserving, recording and maintaining integrity of the physical evidence, all of which are questions for the jury. now, the defendants are charged with crimes against the laws of this state. a crime is a violation of a statute of this state in which there is a joint operation of act and intention. intent is an essential element of any crime and must be proved by the state beyond a reasonable doubt.