United States v. Michael L. Dove

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• to explain difference between direct and circumstantial evidence, trial judge used unbalanced hypothetical that \merely instructed how to look for evidence of . . . guilt\
• defendant must show that the instructions, taken as a whole, were prejudicial
• “[A] criminal defendant is entitled to instructions relating to his theory of defense, for which there is some foundation in the proof, no matter how tenuous that defense may appear to the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).