Ex parte Ladipo Chad Bethea PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Ladipo Chad Bethea v. State of Alabama) (Jefferson Circuit Court: CC-10-267.61; Criminal Appeals: CR-2023-0883).

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• explaining that the instruction “serves an important advisory function because it * * * permits the jury to draw an inference that a willfully false witness who has violated her oath in one particular may well have done so in others”
• overruling “that part of” Ireland v. Mitchell, 226 Or 286, 359 P2d 894 (1961
• “Considered in the light most favor- able to the defendant, the complainant’s repeated denials amount to more than an honest mistake, confusion, or hazy recollection.”
• one purpose of instruction is to “inform[ ] the jury of its ability to distrust other portions of a witness’s tes- timony”
• “[A] reviewing court must view the evi- dence in the light most favorable to the party requesting the instruction.”
• to determine whether instructional error is harm- less, the court considers the instructions as a whole, tak- ing into account how the parties’ theories of the case were developed through the evidence and arguments at trial

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