United States v. Brian W. Cooper

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• holding that a de- fendant waives an evidentiary objection when he refers to that evidence at trial
• holding that the defendant waived (as opposed to forfeited) any objection to the admission of evidence where conduct of the defendant’s attorney demonstrated it was a strategic decision not to object, as opposed to a mere oversight
• explaining that waiver occurs “where either a defendant or his attorney expressly declined to press a right or to make an objection”
• noting that forfeited arguments are reviewable for plain error but waived arguments are not
• finding argument waived because failure to raise it in district court “was clearly a strategic decision rather than a mere oversight”
• finding argument waived because failure to raise it in district court was not “a mere oversight”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).