Regina Long v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that instruction that is incorrect statement of law and misleading to jury, which negates defendant’s only defense, is highly prejudicial to defen dant and requires reversal on direct appeal
• suggesting that the error in the instructions “may have been harmless” if the prosecutor had not highlighted the error in closing argument
• suggesting that the error in the instructions “may have been harmless” if the prosecutor had not highlighted the error in closing argument
• observing that when jurors are faced with both correct and incorrect instructions, there is no reason to believe they will know which is correct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).