United States v. John Natale

How courts have described this case

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• stating that affirmative approval of jury instruction can waive later challenge, but noting that a court may still consider waived issue when interests of jus- tice so require
• finding plain error in failure to instruct jury on one element, but deny- ing relief where overwhelming evidence on the element showed that omission did not affect defendant’s substantial rights and was harmless
• evaluating district court’s jury instruction for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1035
• “[W]aiver is not an absolute bar on our consideration of issues not preserved be- low … [w]hen the ‘interests of justice’ so require, we may reach the merits of a waived issue.”
• \Plain error requires obvious error that is clear under current law.\

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