United States v. Kenneth Southwell

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing “it is not always possible, when instructing the jury, to anticipate every question that might arise during deliberations”
• noting that “[t]he failure to properly instruct the jury on the unanimity requirement was constitutional error”
• discussing how “[t]he jury could reasonably have read the [unanimity] instructions one of two ways” and that “referring the jury back to the instructions did nothing to clear up the ambigu- ity”
• “Failure to provide the jury with a clarifying instruction when it has identified a legitimate ambiguity in the original instructions is an abuse of discretion”
• “Failure to provide the jury with a clarifying instruction when it has identified a legit- imate ambiguity in the original instructions is an abuse of dis- cretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).