What is the test for a federal criminal jury to convict a defendant in a civil case?
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The following excerpt is from United States v. Requena, 980 F.3d 30 (2nd Cir. 2020):
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that a federal criminal jury "cannot convict unless it unanimously finds that the Government has proved each element" of the charged offense. Richardson v. United States , 526 U.S. 813, 817, 119 S.Ct. 1707, 143 L.Ed.2d 985 (1999). But a disagreement about "which of several possible sets of underlying
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