Estes v. White

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “a general jury verdict based on an instruction including two or more separate instances of a criminal offense, whether explicitly stated in the instruction or based on the proof—violates the requirement of a unanimous verdict.”
• finding palpable error where the jury instruction \did not require the jury to differentiate which of the two instances was the basis of the conviction.\
• Unanimous verdict means that to convict a defendant of a specific criminal act, all twelve jurors must agree on the specific criminal act committed by defendant
• examining federal law to assist in defining the unanimity concept
• examining federal law to assist in defining the unanimity concept
• examining federal law to assist in defining the unanimity concept

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).