Charlie Williams v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that waiver of a claim of fundamental error in a jury instruction requires more than “unknowing acquiescence” to the instruction
• explaining that waiver of a claim of fundamental error in a jury instruction requires more than “unknowing acquiescence” to the instruction
• concluding error in jury instructions was not affirmatively waived where \defense counsel did not request the defective instruction” and the \record ... reflected] nothing more than unknowing acquiescence”
• “Nothing supports the view that defense counsel affirmatively agreed to the omission, knowing that the instructions were incomplete.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).