United States v. Robert T. Bennafield

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant could only be convicted of a single act of possession for simultaneous possession of multiple packages of cocaine
• holding that a defendant could only be convicted of a single act of possession for simultaneous possession of multiple packages of cocaine
• applying invited-error doctrine to refuse to examine argument that jury charge was erroneous where defendant had requested the charge
• “We need not address whether the instruction constituted error . . . because any error was clearly invited by [the defendant], who specifically requested the jury instruction of which he now complains.”
• “We need not address whether the instruction constituted error . . . because any error was clearly invited by [the defendant], who specifically requested the jury instruction of which he now complains.”
• same for convictions for possession of a controlled substance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).