John Theodore Hancock v. United States
HabeasCorpus
Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory language without informing the jury the death 'results from' the offense only if the death would not have occurred but-for the offense satisfies the standard announced by this Court in Burrage v. United States
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's. offense by simply 7 , tracking the statutory language without informing the jury the oo . death "results from" the offense only if the death would not have © : occurred but-for the offense satisfy the standard announced by . this Court in Burrage v. United States? : ; Can a jury determine that.a death resulted from an offense ; without receiving proof that the offense provided an indepen; dent cause of death? a .