United States v. Southwest Bus Sales, Inc., United States of America v. Gary Hewitt Bennett, United States of America v. Randall Parker Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that civil settlement between defendant and victim seeming to show that victim did not think it had been defrauded \does not influence the determination of whether or not a crime was committed\
• finding no prejudice in joinder of offenses where court “specifically instructed the jury to consider each offense . . . separately” because “juries are presumed to follow their instructions”
• even if joinder was improper, error was harmless partly due to limiting instructions
• claims are typical where named plaintiffs have the same claims 21 as other members of the class and are not subject to unique defenses
• even if joinder was improper, error was harmless partly due to limiting instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).