Forest Walnut LLC v. Abizker

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• reversing for plain error where the trial judge had notice of the defense request for an instruction and the evidence showed that the instruction was critical to the defense's theory
• failure to preserve issue of trial court’s failure to instruct on character witness reviewable as plain error
• failure to instruct on the effect of character evidence was plain error, in part because of the unique nature of such evidence
• improper, although the defendant has a right to an instruction providing effective guidance
• \Rule 30 has the manifest purpose of avoiding whenever possible the necessity of a time-consuming new trial by providing the trial judge with an opportunity to correct any mistakes in the charge before the jury begins to deliberate.\
• \Rule 30 has the manifest purpose of avoiding whenever possible the necessity of a time-consuming new trial by providing the trial judge with an opportunity to correct any mistakes in the charge before the jury begins to deliberate.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).