Beard v. State Road Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant waived challenge to exclusion issue where, during a sidebar on the matter, other defense counsel raised objections but his attorney \said nothing\
• noting that the court is required to choose the inference \most compatible\ with the jury's guilty verdict when confronted with competing inferences
• emphasizing that a party’s not “liv[ing] up to his obligation to develop[ ] a sustained argument out of ... legal precedents ... leads to waiver” (quotations omitted)
• noting that in assessing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must choose the inference \most compatible with the jury's guilty verdict\ when confronted with competing inferences
• holding defense counsel waived objection where he remained silent despite the district court’s specific inquiry during a side bar conference whether there were any concerns about closing the courtroom to the public
• stressing that a party's not \liv[ing] up to his obligation to develop[] a sustained argument out of . . . legal precedents . . . leads to waiver\ of that argument (quotations omitted)

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