Oak Hill Finance Co. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant waived objection to the content of a jury verdict form by “expressly approv[ing]” the form “with full knowledge of his rights”
• holding that indictment was not insufficient when it included “[g]ratuitous language” consisting of “elements not required for conviction”
• stating that “definite articles like ‘the’ restrict the noun that follows as particularized in scope or previously specified by context”
• noting 25 Anderson Airforce Base, a federal enclave, was within the special maritime and territorial 26 jurisdiction of the United States
• finding harmless error where “[g]iven the strength of the evidence that [the defendant] believed [the undercover agent posing as a minor online] was underage, the jury likely would have voted to convict”
• “[T]he strength of the Government’s case can render trial errors harmless by reducing the likelihood that tainted evidence impacted the verdict.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).