United States v. Roger Welbeck

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “prejudicial harm occurs where the defendant makes strategic concessions in summation which are damaging in relation to the later charged lesser included offense”
• rejecting defendant’s claim that the district court erred in not following the Probation Office’s recommendation
• “The initiative for the supplemental instruction came from the jury itself, precluding the possibility that the timing of the charge was unfairly suggestive on the court’s part. Nor is there any indication that [the defendant] was unfairly prejudiced by the late instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).