United States v. Kenneth Wayne Harvill

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• prejudice where judge said before closing argument that it would give specific intent instructions but later instructed jury that it could convict without a finding of specific intent
• effectiveness of counsel’s argument impaired where district court changed its instructions after assuring counsel it would instruct on specific intent and new instructions effectively repudiated part of counsel’s argument
• change in charge prejudicial where effectiveness of defense counsel’s argument may have been impaired

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