William R. Riggs v. United States

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• determining that defense counsel’s de minimis assistance in arguing for an extension of time on behalf of two co-defendants failed to create to an attorney-client relationship giving rise to a conflict of interest
• “Riggs has not explained any causal connection between Cox’s failure to request the instruction and his prior AUSA position, his representation of Driskell’s ex-wife, or his sharing office space with Kamenish and Chandler.”
• “[A] buyer-seller instruction is unnecessary if the district judge has given a complete instruction reciting all the elements of conspiracy and requirements for membership in a conspiracy.”
• court not required to instruct the jury that a conspiracy cannot exist between defendant and a government agent where “conspiracy involved multiple other persons with whom it was legally possible for appellant to conspire”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).