United States v. Arlynton L. Prawl, A/K/A Pooh

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• declining to decide whether failure to give individual special credibility instruction for government witnesses was error
• declining to decide whether failure to give individual special credibility instruction for government witnesses was error
• stating that the purpose of the jury instruction notice requirement in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure “is to allow counsel to conform their arguments to the law as it will thereafter be presented by the judge to the jury” (quotation omitted)
• \[w]e need not decide whether the [court's failure to give the requested charge] is error that would alone justify vacating the judgment\ [emphasis added]
• “[w]e need not decide whether the [court’s failure to give the requested charge] is error that would alone justify vacating the judgment” [emphasis added]
• “[W]hen there is a basis for an instruction concerning a codefendant’s guilty plea, an appropriate instruction must be given if requested .... ” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).