United States v. Usama Sadik Ahmed Abdel Whab

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “it was not ‘plain error’ for the District Court to fail to instruct the jury that ‘willfully’ under § 1001 required something more than that the defendant have been aware of the generally unlawful nature of his conduct”
• observing that it is \exceedingly rare\ to find plain error \in the absence of binding precedent\
• “[N]othing in the language or structure of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 suggests that ‘willfully’ requires proof that a defendant knew his conduct was a crime . . . .”
• “Certainly, an error cannot be deemed ‘plain,’ in the absence of binding precedent, where there is a genuine dispute among the [courts].”
• “Certainly, an error cannot be deemed ‘plain,’ in the absence of binding precedent, where there is a genuine dispute among the [courts].”
• “Certainly, an error cannot be deemed ‘plain,’ in the absence of binding precedent, where there is a genuine dispute among the [courts].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).