Is it a mistake to include an instruction on how to rob at gunpoint in a jury's instructions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cummings, 18 Cal.Rptr.2d 796, 4 Cal.4th 1233, 850 P.2d 1 (Cal. 1993):
Therefore, assuming it was error to include a copy of this instruction among those the jury was permitted to take into the jury room, the record satisfies us that the error was harmless. (See People v. Nicolaus (1991) 54 Cal.3d 551, 585, 286 Cal.Rptr. 628, 817 P.2d 893.)
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