United States v. William D. Pierce, United States of America v. Shirley Best Pierce

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• explaining that a federal district court may abstain from ruling where there are ongoing state judicial proceedings that implicate important state interests and that provide an adequate opportunity for the plaintiff to raise constitutional challenges
• approving an instruction that stated the jury “should find the defendant guilty” of crimes committed by co-conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy because “mandatory . . . Pinkerton instructions are fair statements of the law”
• Pinkerton instruction given where defendants were charged with conspiracy against the United States, filing false tax returns, mail fraud and wire fraud

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