California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Kingsbury, B264578 (Cal. App. 2018):
The trial court "is under a general obligation to 'clear up any instructional confusion expressed by the jury,' but '[w]here . . . the original instructions are themselves full and complete, the court has discretion . . . to determine what additional explanations are sufficient to satisfy the jury's request for information.' [Citations.]" (People v. Dykes, supra, 46 Cal.4th at p. 802; see also People v. Lua (2017) 10 Cal.App.5th 1004, 1016.)
In examining a claim of instructional error, we begin with the fundamental principle "'"that jurors are presumed to be
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