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112557P.pdf 07/12/2012 United States v. Jorge Morales
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2557
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Ft. Dodge
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Wollman,
Circuit Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion
by requiring defendant to comply with the stipulated discovery order and
reveal his expert witness; fact that defendant declined to disclose the
information and did not call the witness rendered his claim of a
constitutional violation speculative; failure to seek a final trial ruling on
admission of a video waived the issue; no error in refusing defendant's
proposed coercion instruction as it was not supported by the evidence; no
error in refusing to give defendant's theory-of-defense instruction where
the instructions as a whole adequately presented the theory and the
proposed instruction was a string of factual allegations and legal
conclusions unsupported by the evidence; district court permitted
defendant to argue his theory of defense in his closing argument and did
not prevent him from arguing that his actions had been involuntary.