Can I reference Storyboard resources in XAML defind Visual States?

Question

I have six different objects with their own Visual State Managers. The Focused state of each object is the same. I want to define a single Focused State Storyboard resource and reference it in each of the 6 Focus Visual states. Can this be done? Here's my code (all in the same UserControl.Resources):

<Storyboard x:Key="FocusedState">
     ...
</Storyboard>

In each of my 6 objects I have the following:

<VisualStateGroup x:Name="FocusStates">
 <VisualState x:Name="Focused" Storyboard="{StaticResource FocusedState}"/>
...

When I run the project I get the following error:

Message: Attribute {StaticResource FocusedState} value is out of range.