contested-elements

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-5078 Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute