Woodbury v. Robbins

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• concluding that a legal point relating to statutory construction was not “obvi- ous” where it presented a “question of first impression with- out an obvious answer” and that any error therefore was not plain
• concluding that “the issue present[ed] a question of first impression without an obvious answer” when we were “unaware of any case resolving this issue of statutory construction” and the appellant “fail[ed] to point to any case law holding that plain error occurred under the circumstances”
• concluding that “the issue present[ed] a question of first impression without an obvious answer” when we were “unaware of any case resolving this issue of statutory construction” and the appellant “fail[ed] to point to any case law holding that plain error occurred under the circumstances”
• error is not plain when an unpreserved claim of error poses an open question of statutory construction, and no appellate case has addressed
• in assessing an inadequate-assistance claim in this context, a court must consider whether the underlying proceeding was fundamentally fair

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).