Access Systems, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that where the defendant brought a gun to the scene and had á strained relationship with the victim, two or three minutes from the time of an initial argument to the time of the killing is sufficient to establish prior calculation
• declining to find plain error in a flight instruction where the defendant testified and the instructions included consideration of the defendant's explanations for his flight
• finding sufficient evidence of prior calculation and design despite only two to three minutes between the instigating incident and the shooting
• finding that where the defendant brought a gun to the scene and had a strained relationship with the victim, two or three minutes from the time of an initial argument to the time of the killing is sufficient to establish prior calculation
• instructing reviewing courts to consider whether the accused and victim had a strained relationship
• a single jury instruction must be viewed within the context of the entire set, not in isolation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).