LAWSON

v.

MORRIS, SUPERINTENDENT, SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• United States v. Boylan, 898 F.2d 230 (1st Cir. 1990)
  …toward the issue in a manner which could reasonably be expected to have alerted the judge to the instructional error hawked on appeal, we review the charge only for “plain error.” United States v. Griffin, 818 F. 2d 97, 100 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 844, 108 S.Ct. 137, 98 L.Ed.2d 94 (1987). The plain error hurdle is high. See, e.g., United States v. Hunnewell, 891 F. 2d 955 at 956-57 (1st Cir.1989) (reviewing Supreme Court caselaw). The doctrine does not allow litigants to be relieved from the “or…
• Brown v. Trs. OF Boston Univ., 891 F.2d 337 (1st Cir. 1989)
  …y Proceedings, 875 F. 2d 927, 933 (1st Cir.1989) (absent plain error, failure to raise objection in district court deprives appellant of right to raise matter on appeal) (citing United States v. Griffin, 818 F. 2d 97, 99-100 (1st Cir.) cert. denied, 484 U.S. 844, 108 S.Ct. 137, 98 L.Ed.2d 94 (1987); United States v. Krynicki, 689 F. 2d 289, 291 (1st Cir.1982)). See also Weaver v. Bowers, 657 F. 2d 1356, 1361-62 (3d Cir.1981) (considered Rule 12(b)(6) motion, even though not raised until after trial, in th…
• United States v. Efraim Natanel, 938 F.2d 302 (1st Cir. 1991)
  …As appellant concedes, the absence of an objection below means that we can only reverse if the lack of such instructions amounted to plain error. See Hunnewell, 891 F. 2d at 956; United States v. Griffin, 818 F. 2d 97, 100 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 844, 108 S.Ct. 137, 98 L.Ed.2d 94 (1987); see also Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b). We recently commented in a criminal case: The plain error hurdle is high. See, e.g., United States v. Young, 470 U.S. 1, 16, 105 S.Ct. 1038, 1047, 84 L.Ed.2d 1 (1985) (plain errors…