v. People

Summary

The court affirmed the court of appeals' judgment upholding Hoggard's convictions, but on different grounds. It held that any error in the attempt-to-influence instruction was not plain because the error was neither obvious nor prejudicial, and that the erroneous forgery instruction neither constructively amended the charge nor constituted plain error. The court treated the forgery instruction as imposing an additional burden concerning the email rather than changing the charged document.