KRAPP

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• United States v. Sleet, 893 F.2d 947 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …apment, and the law as a matter of policy forbids his conviction in such a case. It is well established that a defendant is not entitled to a particularly worded instruction. United States v. Krapp, 815 F. 2d 1183, 1187-88 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 860, 108 S.Ct. 174, 98 L.Ed.2d 127 (1987). A district court has wide discretion in formulating jury instructions and that discretion is not abused when the instructions as a whole accurately and adequately state the relevant law. United States v. Wagner…
• United States v. Thunder, 893 F.2d 950 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …rief. For reasons to be mentioned, we believe that even under a plain error standard of review, there was error affecting “substantial rights resulting in a miscarriage of justice.” United States v. Gantos, 817 F. 2d 41, 43 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 860, 108 S.Ct. 175, 98 L.Ed.2d 128 (1987). “[Sentences based upon material misinformation or erroneous assumptions violate due process.” United States v. Wright, 799 F. 2d 423, 426 (8th Cir.1986), citing Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736, 68 S.Ct. 1252,…
• United States v. Carlas M. Watson, 953 F.2d 406 (8th Cir. 1992)
  …817 F. 2d 41, 43 (8th Cir.) (“When a defendant sits idly by while an alleged element of the offense is omitted, we are not prone to reverse absent a conclusion that the omission is plain error resulting in a miscarriage of justice.”), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 860, 108 S.Ct. 175, 98 L.Ed.2d 128 (1987). Instruction Nine defined the three essential elements of the offense of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Instruction Ten advised [*410] the jury that they could convict Watson of th…