United States v. Kon Yu-Leung, Also Known as Johnny Kon, John Ruotolo

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• holding that “strategic choice” not to object to admission of evidence waives defendant’s right to appeal the admission
• holding that \strategic choice\ not to object to admission of evidence waives defendant's right to appeal the admission
• concluding that a judge did not abuse his discretion by failing to recuse after learning of defendant’s death threat against him
• holding that a pretrial motion seeking to exclude evidence may preserve an objection where, among other things, it “is ruled upon without equivocation by the trial judge”
• holding that, where defendant objects to certain evidence as irrelevant and prejudicial but opts, as tactical matter, not to object to other evidence, such inaction “constitutes a true ‘waiver,’ which will negate even plain error review”
• explaining that “forfeiture does not preclude appellate consideration of a claim in the presence of plain error, whereas waiver necessarily ‘extinguishes’ the claim altogether”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).