Broussard v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the jury “could” have determined guilt based on different factual scenarios
• noting, on plain error review, that “the most natural conclusion” was that the jury agreed on one instance of criminal conduct
• conducting de novo review of a sufficiency claim where “[a]t bottom, we are called upon to determine the reach of the statute which prohibits obstruction of justice”
• ―[t]he word ‗proceeding‘ may comfortably be used to describe investigations by a grand jury‖
• noting it was “doubtful” that substantial rights were affected
• “We review issues of statutory construction de novo”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).