United States v. Thomas J. Sumner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “ ‘Plain’ in this context is synonymous with clear or obvious. At a minimum, this means the error must be clear under current law.” (citing Olano, 507 U.S. at 734)
• “ ‘Plain’ in this con- text is synonymous with clear or obvious. At a minimum, this means the error must be clear under current law.”
• written objec- tion to PSR and argument at sentencing hearing suffi- cient to preserve issue for appeal, even in absence of objection to the sufficiency of the court’s findings
• “[W]hen a court relies entirely on the PSR to make its relevant conduct finding, the PSR must explain how the purported relevant conduct is part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of convic- tion.”
• \Waiver extinguishes [an] error and precludes appellate review.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).