Opinion
CR 95-166
Opinion delivered December 9, 1996
APPEAL ERROR — PETITION FOR REHEARING DENIED. — The supreme court denied appellant's petition for rehearing, pointing out that the United States Supreme Court case on which appellant relied did not hold that a finding of prejudicial error is compelled by an erroneous jury instruction that omits an element of the government's burden of proof.
Petition for Rehearing; denied.
Appellant, pro se.
Winston Bryant, Att'y Gen., by: Vada Berger, Asst. Att'y Gen., for appellee.
Hall petitions for rehearing and cites U.S. v. Gaudin, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 2310 (1995), for the proposition that our decision improperly failed to entertain the jury-instruction issue raised herein as a structural error. We deny Hall's petition by pointing out that Gaudin does not hold that an erroneous jury instruction which omits an element of the government's burden of proof compels a finding of prejudicial error. See also California v. Roy, ___ U.S. ___, (No. 95-2025, Nov. 4, 1996).