United States v. Mark Allan Pirolli, Jose Galardo, Terry Otalora

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the refusal to give a lesser- offense instruction where “[t]here was no evidence that the pound of cocaine was targeted for personal consumption”
• test for antagonistic defenses considers whether each defendant had to confront hostile witnesses presented by co-defendant
• entrapment defense was not antagonistic to or inconsistent with the ‘merely present’ theory advanced by codefend-ants where defendant asserting entrapment did not implicate codefendants
• “If the evidence justifies it, the defendant is entitled to an instruction on the lesser offense.”

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