Cage v. Louisiana, No. 89-7302 (U.S. Supreme Court) (498 U.S. 39; 111 S.Ct. 328) (November 13, 1990) (Per Curiam)
This is the only case in which the Supreme Court has ever held that a reasonable doubt instruction violated due process, where the lower court equated reasonable doubt with "substantial doubt" or "grave uncertainty".
Here the Court found that instructions equating reasonable doubt with "substantial doubt" or "grave uncertainty", when ...
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