United States v. Peter Hesser

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• \ 'Plain' error means that the legal rule is clearly established at the time the case is reviewed on direct appeal.\
• in reviewing the district court’s findings of fact at sentencing under the clear-error standard, noting that appellate courts “accord[ ] special deference to the court’s finding of witness credibility”
• “‘Plain’ error means that the legal rule is clearly established at the time the case is reviewed on direct ap- peal.”
• determin- ing that prosecutorial misconduct was not so egregious “that the District Court should have intervened sua sponte to remedy it”
• “[A]n ‘error’ is simply a deviation from a legal rule.”
• ex- plaining that Hesser argued that “the Government failed to prove that his 2007 tax return was actually false” but holding that “[t]he evidence . . . [wa]s not shockingly tenuous” because Hesser’s testi- mony filled in any gaps in the Government’s case

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