Does a jury have to consider whether as a whole the jury instructions were misleading or inadequate to guide the jury's determination?
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The following excerpt is from McKenzie v. Risley, 842 F.2d 1525 (9th Cir. 1988):
8 Our court in a recent case, in reversing a conviction, stated "one consideration is whether as a whole [the instructions] were misleading or inadequate to guide the jury's determination." United States v. Washington, 819 F.2d 221, 226 (9th Cir.1987). "[A] conviction should not rest on ambiguous and equivocal jury instructions on a basic issue." Id.
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