I fed Claude.ai Judge Merchan’s jury instructions in their entirety. Among other things, this is what it said:
”I [found] a section in the instructions that seems to suggest exactly what you described - that jurors need not be unanimous on the specific elements of the crime to return a unanimous guilty verdict.
The relevant section reads:
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