The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Abushi, 682 F.2d 1289 (9th Cir. 1982):
The appellants' next contention is that the district judge misstated the law of multiple conspiracies. At trial, the defendants jointly submitted a jury instruction based on the instruction given in United States v. Bailey, 607 F.2d 237 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 934, 100 S.Ct. 1327, 63 L.Ed.2d 769 (1980). 5 The appellants claim the district court erred by omitting the last full paragraph of the jury instruction given in Bailey. Without the benefit of the last full paragraph, they argue, the jury is told,
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