United States v. De Messimy

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that plain error be \ 'clear under current law' at the time of trial\
• stating that first element of analysis requires that there he error
• explaining error affects substantial rights if it affects the outcome of the proceeding
• “Olano counsels that in most cases the affecting of substantial rights requires that the error be prejudicial; it must affect the outcome of the proceeding.”
• “[A]n appellate court is empowered, in its discretion, to correct the assigned error.”
• forfeited errors corrected on appeal only if, inter alia, “clear” or “obvious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).