Horton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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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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