Can a jury in a civil case overturn a conviction for failing to follow a jury instruction?
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The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Wood, 943 F.2d 1048 (9th Cir. 1991):
Even if the instruction was incorrect, however, any error was harmless. Jury instructions are to be viewed as a whole, in context of the entire trial, to determine whether they were misleading or inadequate to guide the jury's determination. United States v. Arvin, 900 F.2d 1385, 1390 (9th Cir.1990), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 111 S.Ct. 672, 112 L.Ed.2d 664 (1991). A conviction should not be reversed because of an allegedly incorrect instruction
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