United States v. Earnest McClain

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to give limiting instruction on proper use of prior inconsistent statement not plain error
• “[wjhenever evidence is admitted only for a limited purpose, it is plain error, in the absence of manifest waiver, to omit an immediate cautioning instruction.”
• when evidence of other misconduct is admitted for limited purpose, it is plain error to omit cautioning instruction
• failure to give limiting instruction on proper use of prior inconsistent statement not plain error
• “[t]he doctrine of curative admissibility is one dangerously prone to overuse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).