State v. Reynolds

Summary

The court held that the aggravated-burglary instruction improperly included a nondwelling-building alternative unsupported by the evidence, but the error was not clearly erroneous because the evidence and verdict showed the jury relied on the dwelling alternative. The court abandoned automatic reversal for alternative-means instructional errors, adopting ordinary legal- and factual-appropriateness review followed by harmless-error analysis. It affirmed the remaining challenged instructions and the judgments on the issues subject to review.