Matter of Larsen

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• holding that instructional errors that do not “categorically vitiat[e] all the jury's findings’ ” are trial errors, not structural errors (alteration in original) (emphasis and internal quotation marks omitted
• holding that harmless error analysis applies where jury was instructed on alternative theories of guilt
• describing absolute certainty test as likely a determi- nation that no error occurred
• Stevens, Souter, & Ginsburg, JJ., dissenting

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