United States First Circuit

In this case, the trial judge misread a jury instruction describing the reasonable doubt standard. Conviction and sentence of defendant is affirmed, where the error elicited no objection, and when considered in the context of the jury instructions as a whole (especially as the manuscript given to the jury contained the correct instructions regarding the reasonable doubt standard), was highly unlikely to have muddled the jury's understanding of the judge's charge.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2014
• Published 11/05/2014

Judges

• Selya

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel