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· 8/28/1991

United States v. Steven Zimmerman

Citations

  • 943 F.2d 1204
  • 33 Fed. R. Serv. 941
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 19883
  • 1991 WL 163873

How courts have described this case

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  • requiring instructions to “state the law which governs” and provide “the jury with an ample understanding of the issues and standards applicable” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • “The jury should have been instructed in a way that there was no possibility that the conviction was based on an incorrect legal basis.”

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Judges: McKay, Seth, Brown

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