United States v. Jimmie L. Ward

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• holding that the doctrine of invited error did not preclude a party from raising the issue of a faulty jury instruction, even though the parties jointly submitted it, because the record did not reveal the extent of the party’s role in formulating the instruction
• stating that a district court may depart upward under § 5K2.0 to address obstruction that is “significantly more egregious than the ordinary cases of obstruction listed in the application notes to § 3C1.1, of which the Commission has taken full account”
• to preserve the issue of sufficiency of the evidence on appeal, the defendant must move for a judgment of acquittal pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 29(a)

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