Legal Opinion
United States v. Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 22, 2010No. 08-16696PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This case poses the question of whether there is a vindictive judge or cowardly counsel exception to the contemporaneous objection rule. Unless there is such an exception, the only issue that the appellant is pressing on appeal is barred for failure to object because she cannot meet the requirements of the plain error rule. Disagreeing with the Second Circuit, we hold that the possibility a judge may be unhappy with an objection does not excuse the failure to make it.
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Alicia Rodriguez participated in a vast scheme that fraudulently bilked the federal government out of…
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