United States v. Rodney Eugene Knowles

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• holding that conviction constituted plain error in light of a subsequent binding circuit opinion finding unconstitutional the statute under which the defendant was convicted
• explaining that the failure to allege a nexus to interstate commerce under a count charging a violation of the Gun Free Schools Act \render[ed] that charge fundamentally defective\
• stating that “we have long held that, under the plain error inquiry, errors of constitutional dimension will be noticed more freely than less serious errors.”
• stating that “we have long held that, under the plain error inquiry, errors of constitutional dimension will be noticed more freely than less serious errors.”
• stating that “we have long held that, under the plain error inquiry, errors of constitutional dimension will be noticed more freely than less serious errors.”
• noting that basing a conviction on an unconstitutional statute is both “plain” and “error”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).