United States of America,plaintiff-Appellee v. Gordon Thornton, Garrick Jackson, Kirk Reynolds, and Michael Harris

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• finding seized merchandise receipts sufficiently distinctive to qualify as self-authenticating under Federal Rule of Evidence 901(b)(4)
• \One need not be at the heart of a conspiracy to be part of its web.\
• receipts, utility bills, and business cards were admissible to show the relationship of coconspirators to each other
• “We will not overturn a conviction merely because the addition or subtraction of a few words might have improved a .defendant’s chance of acquittal, but only if the instructions so misguided the jury as to prejudice the defendant.”
• “The proffer letters and plea agreements merely laid out the terms and conditions of the agreements. Each side could urge competing inferences — as indeed the defendants did — but the jury’s role as independent fact finder was not undermined.”
• \The proffer letters and plea agreements merely laid out the terms and conditions of the agreements. Each side could urge competing inferences--as indeed the defendants did--but the jury’s role as independent fact finder was not undermined.\

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