California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Reyes, G055896 (Cal. App. 2019):
The court instructed the jury with CALCRIM No. 875, which stated among other things: "A deadly weapon other than a firearm is any object, instrument, or weapon that is inherently deadly or one that is used in such a way that it is capable of causing and likely to cause death or great bodily injury." Defendant contends the court erred by instructing that a weapon could be either inherently deadly or deadly in the way it is used because a car is not an "inherently deadly" weapon. "We review defendant's claims of instructional error de novo." (People v. Johnson (2009) 180 Cal.App.4th 702, 707.)
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