United States v. Lexie Little Carter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to give a requested instruction was not reversible error because jury instructions are “left to the discretion of the court”
• “The primary purpose of Rule 12.1 is clearly to prevent surprise at trial.”
• “[B]y providing that the trial court ‘may exclude the testimony’ ... if there is a failure to comply with [Rule 12.1, the plain language of the Rule] clearly leaves the question of whether to exclude the evidence to the trial court’s discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).