How have courts treated the issue of improper instruction in a criminal case?

Appellant's decision to frame this issue as one of instructional error necessarily leads to the rejection of his argument, because appellant requested CALCRIM No. 375. "The doctrine of invited error bars a defendant from challenging an instruction given by the trial court when the defendant has made a 'conscious and deliberate tactical choice' to 'request' the instruction." (People v. Lucero (2000) 23 Cal.4th 692, 723.) CALCRIM No. 375 is a standard limiting instruction that advised the jury it could not consider the uncharged offenses (whose admissibility appellant does not dispute) to prove bad character or disposition to commit a crime. We can readily infer defense counsel had a

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