United States v. Michael Joe Taylor, United States of America v. Chardale Arnaz Bowe, United States of America v. Eric Lamont Hutchinson

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• holding that \a District Court need not give any definition of reasonable doubt at all\
• pointing out that ordinarily, a judge may be best advised to attempt no definition of reasonable doubt unless the jury requests it because experience has shown that doing so “add[s] little in the way of clarity and often add[s] much in the way of confusion and controversy”
• “the court’s instruction on reasonable doubt did not lessen the prosecution’s burden of proof and was not in error because there is no reasonable likelihood that the jury applied the challenged instruction in a way that violates the Constitution”
• interpreting Pattern Criminal Jury Instruction 28 (Federal Judicial Ctr. 1988)

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