United States v. Charles M. Given and Larry W. Hicks

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• holding that the district court properly declined to consider extrinsic evidence where the plea agreement was unambiguous
• holding that the district court did not err by refusing to give a good faith instruction where the instructions as a whole “made it abundantly clear to the jury that if [the defendant] acted in good faith, he was not guilty of mail fraud.”
• rejecting a claim that a specific good faith instruction was necessary when the jury adequately was apprised of the requirement of intent using the Circuit’s pattern knowledge instruction

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