Contrary to defendant's argument, the instruction that a reasonable doubt "is a doubt for which a juror could give a reason if he or she were called upon to do so in the jury room" and one for which a juror "should be in a position to furnish the reason" to his or her fellow jurors if they asked, did not improperly impose upon the jurors a duty to articulate the reasons for their doubt, but merely "`defined the required degree of clarity and coherence of thought, focusing...
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