United States v. Acencion Manjarrez, Also Known as Phil, Also Known as Felipe

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• holding that a defendant is not entitled to a specific instruction so long as, “considering the instructions as a whole, the jury was adequately instructed upon his theory of defense”
• holding that a defendant is not entitled to a specific instruction so long as, “considering the instructions as a whole, the jury was adequately instructed upon his theory of defense”
• holding that “careful and straight- forward explanations of the degree of knowledge and intent that the government must prove,” in addition to an “ostrich instruction,” was sufficient to apprise the jury of the good faith theory of defense
• “defendant’s waiver of the right [to testify] must be knowing and intelligent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).