U.S. v. Olano, No. 91-1306 (U.S. Supreme Court) (507 U.S. 725; 113 S.Ct. 1770) (April 26, 1993) (Justice O'Connor)
This is one of the Court's leading cases on the distinctions between plain and harmless error as used in Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(a) and (b) when the defendant has failed to make a timely objection, resulting in a "forfeited" error. Perhaps the most significant difference noted by the Court was that, under ...
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