Fifth Circuit· 5/5/2022

United States v. Cabello

Citations

33 F.4th 281

How courts have described this case

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

noting that we place “a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of the verdict” in reviewing preserved sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenges
describing the standard as placing a “heavy thumb on the scale in favor of the verdict”
“Preserved challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence get de novo review, with a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of the verdict.”
“We need not consider Cabello’s coercion challenge to his Allen charge because he waived it.”
“Forfeiture is the failure to make the timely assertion of a right. Waiver, in contrast, is the intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right.”
explaining plain-error review applies to forfeitures, not waivers

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