Ruiz-Perez v. Garland

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that “conflicting nature of the evidence” and seriousness of the jury instruction error required reversal of criminal conviction
• concluding that an erroneous jury instruction was not harmless when the instruction deviated “so substantially” from the applicable law defining an element of the offense that it was “difficult to determine the impact of the erroneous instruction”
• explaining that matters not raised in a petition for review are generally waived and therefore not considered
• stating that “[t]he actual, subjective beliefs of the officer are not the focus in evaluating D-3 reasonableness”
• noting that the subjective beliefs of an officer are not the focus in evaluating reasonableness
• holding as error instructions that “[did] not require the officer to recite actual observations and circumstances supporting a finding of probable cause”

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