United States v. Arthurs

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that in applying plain error analysis: “From what we can ascertain, we cannot say that his language problems were of such a magnitude as to have deprived him of a fair trial.”
• stating that, in a case involving charges of importing cocaine and possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, the government must disprove a duress defense beyond a reasonable doubt once the defendant has laid \a predicate warranting a duress instruction\
• applying plain error analysis where defendant requested instruction but failed to object when denied
• “The district judge, who heard the defendant speak, had considerable discretion in these circumstances to determine if Ar-thurs’ English testimony was intelligible to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).