The following excerpt is from Olivera-Beritan v. Asuncion, Case No.: 3:16-cv-2646-CAB-(PCL) (S.D. Cal. 2018):
not faithfully follow the instructions provided by the trial judge. Weeks, 528 U.S. at 234 ("A jury is presumed to follow its instructions."); Boyde v. U.S., 494 U.S. 370, 378 (1990) (following the familiar rule that "a single instruction to a jury may not be judged in artificial isolation, but must be viewed in the context of the overall charge.") (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).
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