Does Defendant have to reverse the course of instruction of a student who has been accused of making a series of instructional errors?

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The following excerpt is from People v. Iniguez, H038896 (Cal. App. 2014):

Defendant contends that the cumulative effect of the alleged instructional errors requires reversal. (See People v. Hill (1998) 17 Cal.4th 800, 844 ["a series of trial errors, though independently harmless, may in some circumstances rise by accretion to the level of reversible and prejudicial error"].)

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