California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Grohs, A141282 (Cal. App. 2016):
"Although a trial court has no sua sponte duty to give a 'pinpoint' instruction on the relevance of evidence of voluntary intoxication, 'when it does choose to instruct, it must do so correctly.' " (People v. Pearson (2012) 53 Cal.4th 306, 325.) Here, by instructing the jury that it could not consider defendant's voluntary intoxication in determining if he intended to commit attempted false imprisonment, the trial court did not correctly instruct the jury. This was error.
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