What is the standard for evaluating a claim that a jury instruction is ambiguous and prone to unlawful interpretation?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Avila v. Sherman, Case No. 1:18-cv-01073-NONE-JDP (E.D. Cal. 2020):
Doc. No. 18 at 16 (citations and international quotations omitted); see also Boyde v. California, 494 U.S. 370, 380 (1990) (describing this "reasonable likelihood" standard for evaluating a claim that a jury instruction is ambiguous and prone to an unlawful interpretation).
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