What is the current state of California Supreme Court ruling on a challenge to the instructions of the S.S.A.B.J. standard?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Frederickson, 258 Cal.Rptr.3d 114, 457 P.3d 1, 8 Cal.5th 963 (Cal. 2020):
standard because they "informed the jurors that if [he] reasonably appeared to be guilty, they could find him guilty even if they entertained a reasonable doubt as to guilt." We have previously rejected similar challenges to these instructions. ( People v. Brasure (2008) 42 Cal.4th 1037, 1058, 71 Cal.Rptr.3d 675, 175 P.3d 632.) Defendant offers no persuasive reason for us to revisit our precedent.
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