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192106P.pdf 08/06/2020 United States v. Luther Gilmore
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2106
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Benton, Circuit Judge and Williams,
District Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The instruction the district court gave on
possession correctly stated the law, and the district court did not err in
denying defendant's request to modify it; nor did the court err in
rejecting defendant's "theory of the case" defense instruction on the
ground the instructions on reasonable doubt and possession conveyed the
substance of the proposed instruction; any error in the indictment and
jury instructions under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) was
not plain error warranting relief; there was sufficient evidence on the
knowledge-of-status element to sustain the verdict; upholding the
conviction would not result in a miscarriage of justice.