Christine Perrin v. Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, LLC, and Abc Insurance Company

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• holding that “the failure to submit a required element of an offense to the jury is a federal con- stitutional error” and to affirm in such a circumstance “we must be able to conclude that the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
• observing that the failure to submit a required element of an offense to the jury is a federal constitutional error, so, at least where the error is preserved, the standard for harmless error is beyond a reasonable doubt
• applying federal constitutional harm- less error standard to a preserved claim challenging the failure to instruct on the property-value element of theft
• discussing rationale for treating culpable mental state as criminal negligence where neither party argues for a higher culpable mental state
• applying federal constitutional harm- less error standard to a preserved claim challenging the failure to instruct on the property-value element of theft
• applying federal con- stitutional harmless error standard to a preserved claim challenging the failure to instruct on the property-value element of theft

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).