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· 6/18/2020

State of West Virginia v. Jeffrey Thomas Phipps

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  • holding that the invited error doctrine precludes a criminal defendant from seeking appellate review of an error that he helped create, even when the alleged error implicates a constitutional right
  • applying the invited error doctrine where the defendant strenuously opposed the trial court's proposed jury instructions

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