United States v. Deborah A. Brown

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• recognizing that the Government can “waive the waiver point” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)
• finding no plain error in the district court’s decision to deny defendant’s religion-based Batson challenge to the Government’s use of peremptory strikes
• noting the “difficulty of . . . finding plain error where this circuit has not previously spoken on an issue and there is no discernible consensus among other circuits”
• noting the 3 “difficulty of . . . finding plain error where this circuit has not previously spoken 4 on an issue and there is no discernible consensus among other circuits”
• “[I]t is not always necessary for the party alleging plain error to cite a circuit or Supreme Court precedent precisely on point. Plain error review is considerably more flexible.”
• \There is. . . usually little question that any Batson error we find would affect a defendant's substantial rights the violation of which would result in manifest injustice.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

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