United States v. Walter Dachsteiner

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• finding no probability of prejudice from instructions referencing national community standard because “[t]he record contains no evidence that would have tended to persuade the jury that national standards of obscenity are more strict than those in the Northern District of California”
• finding no probability of prejudice from instructions referencing national community standard because “[t]he record contains no evi- dence that would have tended to persuade the jury that national standards of obscenity are more strict than those in the Northern District of California”
• “We have frequently held that jury instructions are to be judged as a whole, rather than by picking isolated phrases from them.”
• “We have frequently held that jury instructions are to be judged as a whole, rather than by picking isolated phrases from them.”
• “Neither Miller nor Hamling . . . requires the trial court to define the relevant community in metes and bounds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).