United States v. Joseph Omotunde Filani

How courts have described this case

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• ʺ[T]he trial court may actively participate and give its own impressions of the evidence or question witnesses, as an aid to the jury.ʺ
• “[A] district court should ask those questions necessary for such purposes as clarifying ambiguities, correcting misstatements, or obtaining information needed to make rulings.”
• failure to object to questioning of witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).