People v. Hopp

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the alleged instructional error involved “the essential disputed issue” at trial
• stating “substantial defects are not waived by failure to make timely objections [to a jury instruction] if the interest of justice require”
• the plain-error rule requires the defendant to “show that the error caused a severe threat to the fairness” of the trial (emphasis in original)
• the plain error rule requires the defendant to “show that the error caused a severe threat to the fairness of [the] trial” (emphasis in original)
• the plain-error rule requires the defendant to ‘show that the error caused a severe threat to the fairness’ of the trial (emphasis in original)
• under the doctrine of plain error, the defendant bears the burden of showing a severe threat to the fairness of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).