Hawaii Supreme Court· 8/25/2006

State v. Nichols

Citations

141 P.3d 974
111 Haw. 327

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holding that unobjected-to jury instruction error was subject to harmless beyond a reasonable doubt review because \the duty to properly instruct the jury ultimately lies with the trial court\
holding that the plain error and harmless error standards of review merge in the ease of jury instructions, because “the duty to properly instruct the jury lies with the trial court[,
holding that, where the error is a failure to fulfill a constitutional duty placed upon the trial court rather than the litigants, there is a \merger of the plain error and harmless error standards of review\
holding that \an appellate court will reverse for plain error in jury instructions where the error cannot be said to be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt\ and remanding the case \for a new trial\
holding “that, ... in the case of erroneous jury instructions, [the plain error] standard of review is effectively merged with the [Hawai'i Rules of Penal Procedure] Rule 52(a
stating that an appellate court's \power to deal with plain error is one to be exercised sparingly and with caution\

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Judges: Levinson, Acoba, Duffy, Nakayama, Moon

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