United States v. Sabhnani

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• holding no impermissible duplication from application of multiple Guidelines adjustments that “aim at different harms emanating from the same conduct” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• admonishing that jury instructions are not to be read in isolation, but in their entirety, to determine whether they communicate the “essential ideas” to the jury
• observing that successful jury instruction challenge requires showing of “both error and ensuing prejudice” when “viewing the charge as a whole” (citation omitted)
• noting that, on review, courts consider jury instructions “as a whole”
• stating that jury can assess credibility based on witness demeanor
• finding sufficient evidence to support conviction under section 1589 where there was evidence that the defendant witnessed his wife \humiliate\ live-in domestic servants, force servants into humiliating and painful punishments, and physically abuse the servants

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