The following excerpt is from United States v. Kleinman, 880 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2017):
This portion of the court's instructions was taken nearly verbatim from two cases. The first three sentences came from United States v. Rosenthal , 266 F.Supp.2d 1068, 1085 (N.D. Cal. 2003), affirmed in part, reversed in part , 454 F.3d 943 (9th Cir. 2006), where the district court instructed the jury "you cannot substitute your sense of justice, whatever that means, for your duty to follow the law, whether you agree with it or not. It's not your determination whether a law is just or whether a law is unjust. That can't be your task." The defendant argued that this instruction erroneously divested the jury of
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