How have courts treated defense counsel's questions about domestic violence and parental abduction?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Chern, 141 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 1998):

There is no duty to respond to questions not asked. See Hard v. Burlington Northern R.R. (Hard II), 870 F.2d 1454, 1460 (9th Cir.1989); United States v. Kerr, 778 F.2d 690, 694 (11th Cir.1985). If counsel wanted to know about domestic violence or parental abduction or kidnaping, defense counsel should have asked. When the trial court misstated the drug question, limiting it to "drug problems needing treatment," defense counsel posed no clarifying questions. If counsel wanted to know generally about drug or gang involvement, they should have asked.

E. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(c)(3)(A)

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