United States v. Marsha Dobson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the district court must instruct the jury on a legal standard necessary to establish the charge before it
• affirming use of instruction defining scheme to defraud as involving “a departure from fundamental honesty, moral uprightedness, or fair play and candid dealings in the general light of the community”
• finding plain error where there was a “reasonable likelihood” that the error affected the outcome
• affirming use of instruction defining scheme to defraud as involving “a departure from fundamental honesty, moral uprightedness, or fair play and candid dealings in the general light of the community”
• “In order to be ‘plain’ an error must be ‘clear’ or ‘obvious.’”
• “In order to ‘affect substantial rights,’ an error must have been prejudicial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).