Timothy Bryan Standfield v. State of Alabama

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• holding that error in instructing the jury that it could return nonunanimous guilty verdicts did not require reversal of convictions rendered by unanimous guilty verdicts
• holding that a trial court’s error in instructing the jury that it can return nonunanimous verdicts is harmless with respect to verdicts that are nonetheless unanimous
• holding that error in instruct- ing the jury that it could return nonunanimous guilty ver- dicts did not require reversal of convictions rendered by unanimous guilty verdicts
• holding that error in instructing the jury that it could return nonunanimous guilty verdicts did not require reversal of convictions rendered by unanimous guilty ver- dicts
• concluding that trial court’s instructional error on nonunanimous verdicts is harmless when the verdict is unanimous
• holding that a nonunanimous jury instruction is not a structural error that requires retrial when the jury convicts the defendant unanimously

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