United States v. Jorge L. Pabon-Cruz

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the enrolled bill rule does not prevent courts from considering legislative history when determining how to interpret and apply statutory language
• considering on appeal the denial of a proposed jury instruction that resulted from a writ of mandamus by the court of appeals
• declining, in a § 2251(d)(1) case, to hold that the district court plainly erred by “strict[ly] adher[ing] to the text of the statute in framing [its] jury instruction”
• “It is clear that we have the authority to resolve this question despite its not having been raised in the District Court proceedings or in the parties’ initial briefs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).