United States v. Lavell Ray Hegwood Fred Wilson, Jr.

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• holding co-conspirators jointly liable for acts of any conspirator done in furtherance of conspiracy
• explaining that evidence of prior drug use, possession, and sale of drugs was admissible Rule 404(b) to prove 4 intent, knowledge, and lack of mistake or accident in prosecution for possession and intent to distribute drugs
• challenging sufficiency of evidence to establish knowing or intentional use of mails to facilitate commission of felony
• observing that use of model instruction would have constituted plain error
• no plain error where the court blended language from the relevant criminal statute and a model jury instruction, even though the resulting instruction in its entirety was “less than artful”
• no plain error where the court blended language from the relevant criminal statute and a model jury instruction, even though the resulting instruction in its entirety was “less than artful”

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