How have the courts interpreted jury instructions in a sexual assault case?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. White, F067535 (Cal. App. 2015):

Defendant argues on appeal that the trial court's instructions to the jury on the standard of proof were defective. We disagree. "In determining the correctness of jury instructions, we consider the instructions as a whole. [Citation.] An instruction can only be found to be ambiguous or misleading if, in the context of the entire charge, there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury misconstrued or misapplied its words. [Citation.]" (People v. Campos (2007) 156 Cal.App.4th 1228, 1237.)

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