United States v. Gregory M. Thomas

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• finding that jury’s conviction of defendant for two post-majority substantive offenses in furtherance of the narcotics and RICO conspiracies demonstrated that it found the facts necessary to show ratification
• finding that where the defendant failed to meet burden of showing affirmative withdrawal from conspiracy, “drugs handled by the conspiracy” after the defendant’s “claimed lack of involvement” were properly attributed to him
• explaining, in the context of errors in the prosecution's opening statement, that opening statements are \not evidence\ and that \such a general instruction suffices to render error in opening statements harmless except in particularly egregious cases\
• the D.C. Circuit’s holding that “it is the adult participation that gives the district court jurisdiction”
• alternately framing the three-part test as “the severity of the misconduct, the measures adopted to cure the misconduct, and the certainty of conviction absent the improper remarks”
• no actual conflict where there was no showing that attorney had interest in not testifying for client

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).