United States v. Blair William Guthrie

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• holding that a criminal defendant had waived his right to complain of an omitted jury instruction because defense counsel had refused the district court’s offer to provide it
• refusing to review jury instructions on appeal because trial court had offered to give omitted instruction, and defendant’s attorney objected
• describing how district court permitted detailed cross-examination on the informant's prior distribution of drugs, psychotherapy, relationship with Hells Angels, firearm conviction, child custody battle, drug use, and collection of Nazi literature
• error invited where defendant declined court’s offer to instruct jury on elements of constructive possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).