United States v. Korn

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “an error that favors the defendant is ‘a species of harmless error ... of which he cannot complain.’ ”
• holding that “an error that favors the defendant is a species of harmless error ... of which he cannot complain”
• holding substantial rights not implicated when defendant concedes or stipulates to an element of the offense
• applying the plain error standard in the context of a potentially erroneous jury instruction
• discussing cases that hold that erroneous jury instructions do not automatically require reversal
• “[B]efore an appellate court can correct an error not raised at trial, there must be (1) error, (2) that is plain, and (3

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).