Is there any case law supporting a claim that the trial court acted improperly by instructing the jury to disregard the facts?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mickey, 286 Cal.Rptr. 801, 54 Cal.3d 612, 818 P.2d 84 (Cal. 1991):
Defendant claims in substance that by instructing the jury as it did, the trial court committed so-called "Skipper error." (Skipper v. South Carolina (1986) 476 U.S. 1, 106 S.Ct. 1669, 90 L.Ed.2d 1.)
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