The following excerpt is from McGinnis v. Blodgett, 67 F.3d 307 (9th Cir. 1995):
1 Cf. Connecticut v. Johnson, 460 U.S. 73, 85 (1983) ("An erroneous presumption on a disputed element of the crime renders irrelevant the evidence on the issue...." (emphasis added)).
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