United States v. Howard P. Carroll, Robert C. Wilson, and Jerry A. McFarland

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• jury instruction effectively amending the indictment by charging an extraneous crime as the object of the conspiracy count constituted reversible error
• defendant charged with conspiracy to violate federal securities and postal laws; jury instructed on conspiracy to violate securities laws, postal laws, and statute prohibiting interstate transportation of fraudulently obtained money
• the concept of harmless error is inapplicable to constructive amendment of the indictment by court’s jury instruction and such an amendment is plain error that may be corrected even absent an objection in the trial court

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