United States v. Kermit A. Doucet

How courts have described this case

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• finding constructive amendment where indictment charged with “assembled” gun, but was potentially convicted for possessing a “combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled”
• “Moreover, it is clear that the indictment may be amended constructively by the actions of either the court or the prosecutor.”
• “The prosecutor compounded the error in these claims by referring the jury each time to the jury charge containing the new definition of a machine gun.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).