The following excerpt is from United States v. Coffin, No. 16-4083-cr (2nd Cir. 2017):
confusion about the elements and statutes at issue "affected [his] decision-making calculus," United States v. Harrington, 354 F.3d 178, 184 (2d Cir. 2004), the government failed to meet its burden to establish that the identified errors were "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt," United State v. Yang Chia Ten, 720 F.3d 464, 469 (2d Cir. 2013).
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