Robert Henry Sykes and Haydon David Jones v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that appellate courts are “not equipped for divination” and “[t]hat which is not visible cannot be ‘plain.’”
• refusing to consider a forfeited suppression claim because it would involve undue “speculation” as to the underlying facts
• “There is nothing conclusive in the evidence establishing either the legality or illegality of the arrest”
• “Speculation wastes time and bears ephemeral fruit.... The burden of showing that the error was committed, and is not mere speculation, [under a plain-error standard] is on the appellant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).