United States v. Bobbie Bear

How courts have described this case

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

• finding district court erred by failing to sua sponte give a jury instruction
• “When a defendant actually pre- sents and relies upon a theory of defense at trial, the judge must instruct the jury on 3 that theory even where such an instruction was not requested.”
• finding plain error where defense was “viable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).