California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Quintana, B241783 (Cal. App. 2013):
We must consider the instructions as a whole, which the jury is presumed to follow, and must determine whether "there was a reasonable likelihood the jury applied the challenged instruction in an impermissible manner." (People v. Wilson (2008) 44 Cal.4th 758, 803.) Nothing in these instructions created a reasonable likelihood the jury believed appellant had to be found "equally" guilty as the perpetrator as an aider and abettor.
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