State v. Nupeiset

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that \the trial judge . . is in a better position than the appellate court to ascertain from the answers of a juror whether the juror is able to be fair and imparial\
• stating that while the challenged jury instruction was “an incomplete statement of the law, we believe any error in giving it was harmless”
• affirming instruction because it “required that the jury evaluate [the defendant's belief that the use of force was necessary from the viewpoint of a reasonable person”
• affirming instruction because it \required that the jury evaluate [the d]efendant's belief that the use of force was necessary from the viewpoint of a reasonable person\
• \The Hawai`i Supreme Court has held a defendant cannot complain of an erroneous instruction which benefitted him [(or her)].\ (Brackets, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).