United States v. Partida

How courts have described this case

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• stating that constructive amendment occurs when jury instructions make it possible for the jury to convict on an alternative basis not alleged in the indictment
• applying plain error review where, at trial, defendant failed to raise argument that indictment was insufficient in failing to allege all elements of a crime
• rejecting sufficiency-of-the- evidence claim as moot where defendant was acquitted of the count being challenged
• finding insufficiency claim moot as to an acquitted count

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).