United States v. Colon Pagan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• instructions which define reasonable doubt to mean “proof of such a convincing character that a person ... would be willing to rely and act upon it” constituted structural error
• reversible plain error where reasonable doubt instruction misdes-cribed government’s burden of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).