Alaska Supreme Court· 5/4/2018

Jordan v. State

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420 P.3d 1143

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remanding case for further findings when constitutional protection was related to reasonable expectation of privacy and trial court had made no relevant findings
discussing structural due process error and why it evades normal harmless error review
listing “ ‘the difficulty of assessing the effect of the error’ and . . . other factors, including fundamental fairness and whether harmlessness is irrelevant under the circumstances” as factors to be considered when determining whether error is structural
explaining why Jordan preserved his right to appeal the jury instructions
explaining why Jordan preserved his right to appeal the jury instructions
“We decide that the failure to instruct the jury on an essential and contested element of a crime is structural error; we thus reject Neder. We find the Neder dissent compelling.” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Stowers, Winfree, Maassen, Bolger, Carney

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