United States v. Linette Perez, United States of America v. Juancho Alcantera, United States of America v. Edmundo Batoon

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• holding that failure to instruct the jury to resolve a factual dispute relevant to determining whether venue is proper may constitute reversible error if the defendant requests a jury instruction on venue
• holding a witness’s anticipated testimony was not “clearly exculpatory” when it was going to be undercut by a prior inconsistent statement implicating the defendant
• observing that several courts of appeals have consistently admitted testimony concerning the modus operandi of drug trafficking
• observing that several courts of appeals have consistently admitted testimony concerning the modus operandi of drug trafficking
• stating that “uncorroborated accomplice testimony may constitutionally provide the exclusive basis for a criminal conviction” (internal quotation and citations omitted)
• finding that two defendants suffered no prejudice where the purported spillover evidence concerning other coconspirators also “directly implicated both [of those defendants] in the conspiracy”

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