United States v. John Oscar Reives

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• stating that district court does not err by refusing to instruct jury on meaning of reasonable doubt even when specifically requested by the jury
• noting that we have \consistently and vigorously condemned the attempts of trial courts to define reasonable doubt\ unless requested to do so by the jury
• stating \trial judge should treat such inquiries in like manner as in explaining any other[jury] instruc- tion.\
• \We have never found a refusal of a party's request for a clarifying instruc- tion to be error.\
• \[W]e have consistently and vigorously condemned the attempts of trial courts to define reasonable doubt.\
• district court may refuse to give definition of \reasonable doubt\ even when definition is requested by jury

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