United States v. John Wayne Pennington and John Mitchell Margiotta

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• reaffirming that purposeful-availment analysis applies if 21 “the defendant has taken deliberate action within the forum state” while purposeful- 22 direction analysis extends to a “defendant who never physically entered the forum state”
• explaining that reversal is warranted only if the requested instruction (1) was a substantially correct statement of the law, (2) was not substantially covered in the charge as a whole, and (3) concerned an important issue in the trial
• reviewing a court's refusal to submit a proposed jury instruction for abuse of discretion
• drugs found in trailer of a tractor-trailer rig during a random border checkpoint search

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