California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rodriguez, D069435 (Cal. App. 2016):
"In deciding whether to give the instruction, the trial court must ask whether (1) there is a risk the jury may divide on two discrete crimes and not agree on any particular crime or (2) the evidence merely presents the possibility the jury may divide, or be uncertain, as to the exact way the defendant is guilty of a single discrete crime. [Citation.] In the first situation, but not the second, it should give the unanimity instruction." (People v. Hernandez, supra, 217 Cal.App.4th at p. 570.)
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