United States v. James J. Coyne, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting challenge to jury instruction that defendant must be found to have accepted or solicited a thing of value \at least in part\ for or because of his intent to be influenced
• upholding denial of pattern or 5 practice claim where evidence reflected that violence was not 6 nationwide and that Catholics in many parts of Indonesia were 7 free to practice their faith
• “[T]he trial judge is in the best position to weigh competing interests in deciding whether or not to admit certain evidence.”
• “[I]t is sufficient if the public official understands that he or she is expected as a result of the payment to exercise particular kinds of influence . . . as specific opportunities arise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).