Bohmer v. California

How courts have described this case

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• similar acts by similar people, assistance by some of the same people, and knowledge of some of the participants not enough to show a common purpose or objective
• find- ing rimless “wheel” conspiracy where alleged co-conspirators acted “to benefit themselves individually” and “did not care about the success of the other defendants”
• “ ‘[T]hose people who form the wheel’s spokes must have been aware of each other and must do something in furtherance of some single, illegal enterprise.’”
• “due to the number of defendants, the complexity of the issues, the failure of the court to give a limiting instruction, and the lack of overwhelming evidence of guilt,” the variance substantially prejudiced the defendants
• “due to the number of defendants, the complexity of the issues, the failure of the court to give a limiting instruction, and the lack of overwhelming evidence of guilt,” the variance substantially prejudiced the defendants
• “When the proof at trial reveals the existence of more than one conspiracy, the adequacy of the trial judge’s instructions are of critical importance in evaluating the likelihood [that] confusion or prejudice resulted from transference of guilt from one conspiracy to another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).