California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jimenez, H039607 (Cal. App. 2014):
[Citation.] "The absence of an essential element in one instruction may be supplied by another or cured in light of the instructions as a whole." [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Bolin (1998) 18 Cal.4th 297, 328.)
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