Robert Sorich v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that because “[t]he parties both take the position that on collateral review, the error in instructions will result in reversal only if the error had ‘substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict’. . . . [w]e will apply this standard as well.”
• using the Brecht standard to evaluate constitutional error in jury instructions
• using the Brecht standard to evaluate constitutional error in jury instructions
• using the Brecht standard to evaluate constitutional error in jury instructions
• using the Brecht standard to evaluate constitutional error in jury instructions
• ‘‘[w]e have described the [harmless error] inquiry . . . as a question of whether the trial evidence was such that the jury must have convicted the petitioners on both [alternative] theories’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).