State v. Taggart

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that when a defendant does not object to a jury instruction, “the instruction, right or wrong, becomes the law of the case” (citation omitted)
• noting that an instruction given to the jury without objection becomes the law of the case
• holding error is not preserved for appeal when defendant fails to object to an erroneous jury instruction in the trial court
• describing the underpinnings of the law-of-the-case doctrine in terms of error preservation and waiver
• “We have repeatedly held that timely objection to jury instructions in criminal prosecutions is necessary in order to preserve any error thereon for appellate review.”
• “We have repeatedly held that timely objection to jury instructions in criminal prosecutions is necessary in order to preserve any error thereon for appellate review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).