State of Arizona v. Adolfo Noel Ruiz, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing based on instructional error relating to the State’s burden of proving the charged offense
• reversing based on instructional error relating to the State’s burden of proving the charged offense
• applying fundamental error review; error in instructing jury was prejudicial when appellate court could not “say beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have convicted” defendant without erroneous jury instruction
• applying fundamental error review; error in instructing jury was prejudicial when appellate court could not “say beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury would have convicted” defendant without erroneous jury instruction
• Prejudice requires a showing “that a reasonable, properly instructed jury could have reached a different result.”

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