Court Opinion

ID: 9471700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:39:15.960873+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:32.623075
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McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur. I agree that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to give appellant’s proposed absence of flight instruction. The proposed instruction was argumentative and thus distinguishable *403from a theory of defense instruction which must be given by the district court if the request is timely made, if the instruction is supported by evidence in the record, and if the instruction is a correct statement of the applicable law. In my opinion instructions on flight should be eliminated. “If anything, the interest of justice might be better served by removing entirely from instructions both flight and absence-of flight, and relegating the entire subject to the give and take of argument.” United States v. Telfaire, 469 F.2d 552, 558 (D.C.Cir.1972) (per curiam).