District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 5/4/1988

Horton v. United States

Citations

541 A.2d 604
1988 D.C. App. LEXIS 65
1988 WL 41754

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finding right to unanimous verdict “so clearly prejudiced by the confusion inherent in the separate defenses to the alleged gunshots, unaided by a special unanimity instruction, that plain error occurred” (citations omitted)
a unanimity instruction was required where multiple factual scenarios may have been deduced from the evidence depending upon which, if any, of the defendant’s defenses the jury may have chosen to accept
“[T]here is no evidence to which we can point that indicates unanimous agreement among the jurors; we cannot deduce from the record whether the jury must have agreed upon one particular set of facts.”

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Judges: Ferren, Belson, Rogers

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