Is a jury's failure to instruct the jury with a unanimity instruction harmless beyond a reasonable doubt?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Williams, E072614 (Cal. App. 2020):
Here, even if we assume, for the sake of argument, the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury with a unanimity instruction, any error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because the evidence shows that the jury could not reasonably disagree in its finding defendant committed an attempted criminal threat.3 (People v. Thompson (1995)
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