United States v. Lighty

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a district court will be reversed for refusing to give a proffered instruction, inter alia, when the requested instruction was \correct\
• finding that redaction was permitted, in part, because “it would have been unclear to the jury that the statements had been altered at all”
• holding that the grand jury need not find nonstatutory aggravating factors
• explaining that improper willful blindness instruction is harmless where there is sufficient evidence of actual knowledge
• explaining that improper willful blindness instruction is harmless where there is sufficient evidence of actual knowledge
• explaining that if a district court errs by giving a willful blindness instruction, the error is harmless if “there is sufficient evidence in the record of actual knowledge on the defendant’s part”

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