United States v. Terance Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• requiring that defendant not maintain the illegal conduct any longer than absolutely necessary
• stating that when an affirmative defense is raised in a pretrial motion, “if the defendant’s proffered evidence is legally insufficient to support a . . . defense, the trial judge should not allow its presentation to the jury”
• stating that when an affirmative defense is raised in a pretrial motion, “if the defendant’s proffered evidence is legally insufficient to support a . . . defense, the trial judge should not allow its presentation to the jury”
• stating that when an affirmative defense is raised in a pretrial motion, “if the defendant’s proffered evidence is legally insufficient to support a . . . defense, the trial judge should not allow its presentation to the jury”
• stating that when an affirmative defense is raised in a pretrial motion, “if the defendant’s proffered evidence is legally insufficient to support a . . . defense, the trial judge should not allow its presentation to the jury”
• ‘Where ‘an affirmative defense consists of several elements and testimony supporting one element is insuf ficient to sustain it even if believed, the trial court and jury need not be burdened with testimony supporting other elements of the defense.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).