United States v. Cleo C. Ross

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• allowing retraction of concession where winning argument was adequately developed in opening brief but expressly abandoned in reply brief
• finding fatal variance where the indictment charged unlawful possession of a weapon in 2002 but the jury was instructed that it could convict if it found possession any time after 1998
• jury instructions expressly permitting more than four-year variance from “on or about” date imper-missibly amended indictment
• jury instructions expressly permitting more than four-year variance from “on or about” date impermissibly amended indictment
• four years is not “reasonably near”

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