Mitchell Alfred Patterson v. James H. Gomez, Director

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “if a jury is instructed that a defendant must be presumed ‘sane’ . . . a reasonable juror could well conclude that he or she must presume that the defendant had no . . . mental disease, defect, or disorder”
• “A jury instruction cannot relieve the state of the burden of proving beyond a rea- sonable doubt a crucial element of the criminal offense.”
• “A constitutional error is harmless on federal habeas review of a state court conviction unless it ‘had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).