Does the Attorney General have to prove that the error in an instruction provided to a jury in a civil case was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Alvarez, H043309 (Cal. App. 2018):
Defendant contends that the error violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and thus the Attorney General must show that the error was "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt." (Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18, 24.) He asserts that the instruction "provided the jury
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