Government of Virgin Islands v. Kenneth Brown

How courts have described this case

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• ”[t]he omission of an essential element of an offense in the charge to the jury ordinarily constitutes plain error, even in the absence of objection’’
• \The omission of an essential element of an offense in the charge to the jury ordinarily constitutes plain error.\
• “The jury should have been instructed that in addition to the other essential elements, the government had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants intended to rob the particular victim on whom the assault was perpetrated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).