United States v. Quinones

How courts have described this case

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• holding that tactical decision to agree to life imprisonment as an alternative to death penalty waives claim of plain error
• explaining that the “record plainly demonstrates that the challenged statements constituted important proof of the charged crimes: they contained [the defendant’s] admissions to the [charged] murder”
• stating that “the seriousness of the crime and the likelihood of pre-trial publicity [] reinforce[d] the district court’s decision to empanel an anonymous jury”
• noting that the district court is “in a superior position to evaluate the likely impact of the evidence.”
• noting that a district court is “in a superior position to evaluate the likely impact of the evidence.”
• stating that defendants who solicited and agreed to erroneous jury instruction that, if death penalty were not imposed, life imprisonment was mandated, could not later claim that imposition of life sentence was plain error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).