United States v. David W. Prigmore, United States v. Lee H. Leichter, United States v. John F. Cvinar

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that judges have “considerable” leeway in how they “formulate[ ], structure[ ], and word[ ]” their jury charges
• articulating the Neder harmless-error test as whether it is \'clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found' defendants guilty even if properly -101- instructed\ (quoting Neder, 527 U.S. at 18)
• stating that the waiver must be \unequivocally expressed.\
• “This court will not make arguments for [a party] that he did not make himself.”
• \[E]xpert testimony proffered solely to establish the meaning of a law is presumptively improper.\ (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).