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State v. Powell

Citations

  • 74 Or. App. 334
  • 703 P.2d 257
  • 1985 Ore. App. LEXIS 3444

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  • holding that unless an erroneous instruction was unlikely to have changed the result of the trial, a reviewing court cannot say that giving the instruction was harmless error
  • erroneous jury instruction is not harmless unless “there is substantial and convincing evidence of guilt and that the error committed was very unlikely to change the result of the trial”

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Judges: Gillete, Hoomissen, Young

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