State v. Thompson
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of two counts of larceny in the first degree by false pretenses. The parties agreed that the appellate court properly concluded that the trial court improperly failed to instruct the jury that it could aggregate the value of the property stolen in individual thefts only if it first concluded that the thefts were part of one scheme or course of conduct. Defendant, however, argued that the appellate court improperly concluded that the improper instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court, holding that the error was harmless because Defendant did not contest the issue and the evidence so overwhelmingly supported the determination that the multiple thefts were part of a single scheme that no reasonable jury could have concluded otherwise.
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