United States v. Abdel Eltayib, Jaime Enrique Monsalvo Padilla and Jorge Portocarrero Pena

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• holding that procedural bar rule does not apply to ineffectiveness claims
• concluding “not all uses of the pronoun T are improper” such as “I suggest that,” which “shie[s] away from an outright endorsement”
• explaining that “if the defendant’s participation in the conspiracy has been established, conscious avoidance may support a finding with respect to the defendant’s knowledge of the objectives or goals of the conspiracy”
• explaining that “if the defendant’s participation in the 13 conspiracy has been established, conscious avoidance may support a finding with respect to the defendant’s knowledge of the objectives or goals of the conspiracy”
• rejecting contention that “indictment must be dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury” because “a guilty verdict by a petit jury remedies any possible defects in the grand jury indictment” (citing United States v. Mechanik, 475 U.S. 66, 72–73 (1986)
• “[A] guilty verdict by a petit jury remedies any possible defects in the grand jury indictment.”

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