Sheldon v. Mullins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “[i]t is improper for the trial court to read an entire statute to a jury when the pleadings or the evidence support a violation of only a portion of the statute”
• declining to permit state to modify its concession before Appellate Court that jury instruction was improper when Appellate Court decision under review relied on that concession, and issue was whether Appellate Court should have applied harmless error analysis
• ‘‘[u]nder the circumstances . . . we cannot conclude that it is more probable than not that the court’s instruc- tional impropriety affected the result’’
• in an alternative means case, the court held that, although the trial court erroneously instructed jury on an alternative for which there was no evidence, the instruction was harmless error
• in an alternative means ease, the court held that, although the trial court erroneously instructed jury on an alternative for which there was no evidence, the instruction was harmless error
• due process implicated where jurors given option of relying on legally inadequate theory of liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).