Opinion ID: 2166066
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Heading: standard of review

Text: This case requires us to determine whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to charge the jury with a theory of defense. As this Court has observed recently, issues concerning incomplete [jury] instructions are deemed waived in the absence of an objection or special request. State v. Page, 184 S.W.3d 223, 230 (Tenn.2006) (citing State v. Cravens, 764 S.W.2d 754, 757 (Tenn.1989)); see also State v. Haynes, 720 S.W.2d 76, 85 (Tenn.Crim.App.1986) (recognizing that alleged omissions in the charge must be called to the trial judge's attention at trial or be regarded as waived); Tenn. R.App. P. 3(e). It is undisputed that the Defendant's assertion of error regarding the jury instructions in this case was not raised at trial or in his motion for new trial. Accordingly, we are limited to reviewing the Defendant's assertion of error under the plain error doctrine. See Tenn. R.Crim. P. 52(b).