Shadron v. State

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting defendant’s “construction ofthe jury instruction [which] would require reading it in disjointed portions, without context”; reaffirming that the jury charge must be viewed “as a whole”
• rejecting defendant’s “construction of the jury instruction [which] would require reading it in disjointed portions, without context”; reaffirming that the jury charge must be viewed “as a whole”
• trial court’s unnecessary and superfluous jury instructions regarding the grand jury process were not a basis for reversal when defendant failed to show prejudice
• “In order to have reversible error, there must be harm as well as error and the lack of harm makes this enumeration of error without merit.”
• no reversible error where instruction about grand jury process did not mislead the jury about “the State’s burden of proof at any stage of the proceeding and . . . did not diminish the presumption of innocence” when viewed in context of entire jury charge

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