California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. King, B254930 (Cal. App. 2015):
King relies on the principle articulated in Bollenbach v. United States (1946) 326 U.S. 607, 612-613 [66 S.Ct. 402, 90 L.Ed. 350] that "[w]hen a jury makes explicit its difficulties a trial judge should clear them away with concrete accuracy." Bollenbach, however, is distinguishable. In Bollenbach, the trial court answered a jury's question with an instruction that was "simply wrong." (Id. at p. 613.) Here the trial court's instruction contained no error of law.
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