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· 9/22/1998

United States v. Klat, Susan Viola

Citations

  • 156 F.3d 1258
  • 332 U.S. App. D.C. 230
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 23332

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • single count charging threats against public official over six month period was not duplicitous and failure to give specific unanimity instruction was not plain error
  • remanding “for an evi-dentiary hearing to determine whether the competency hearing could have come out differently if [the defendant] had been represented by counsel”
  • remanding for evidentiary hearing to determine whether competency hearing could have come out differently if defendant had been represented by counsel
  • single count charging threats against public official over six month period was not duplicitous and failure to give specific unanimity instruction was not plain error
  • single count charging threats against public official over six month period was not duplicitous and failure to give specific unanimity instruction was not plain error
  • \We cannot conclude that it was plain error not to give a special unanimity instruction\ where \an indictment charges more than one act.\

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Judges: Wald, Williams, Tatel

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